UWTSD, (2009), PhD Viva for Theodicy and Practical Theology (2010).
Paraphrased:
Internal Reviewer:
'A problem with your type of theodicy work is that it places God in the dock.'
Me:
'I do not place God in the dock, but the theodicy and problem of evil, academic discussion does at points. However, my Reformed theodicy is a reasonable and I reason, at least a significantly true answer.'
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From PhD text
This work is not seeking to place God in the docks or primarily to take God out of the docks.
(Note today: Docks is the plural of dock. My theodicy work did not attempt to place God in a human dock or docks.)
Doubtless many critics of theism and Christianity do place God in the docks and so a work should deal with these concepts. I reason, based on the philosophical and theological presentations that the compatibilism of a Reformed theodicy better deals with problems associated with the logical problem of evil and gratuitous evil than do incompatibilist perspectives. God is explained in a reasonable logical manner as being in charge of creation and therefore through Christ is also able to restore creation.
The compatibilist or soft-determinist states although God causes actions, created beings are responsible where they act voluntarily. Pojman (1996: 596).
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May 2, 2017
Reformed compatibilism presents God, the alpha and omega (Revelation) with infinite sovereignty, providence, omniscience and holiness causing and willing all things, including the eventual culmination of the new heaven and new earth. (Revelation 21-22). God is ultimately responsible for all things, but not as if a criminal in a court dock (s).
The completed atonement and resurrection work of Jesus Christ in process to humanity remedies evil through new covenant (Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, Hebrews), eventual resurrected, spiritual bodies for believers (1 Corinthians 15) and culminated restored creation (Revelation 21-22).
Matthew 26:28
King James Bible
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
POJMAN, LOUIS P. (1996) Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, New York, Wadsworth Publishing
Company.
