PhD: Twitter quote 16

PhD: Twitter quote 16

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PhD version

Theistic and Christian theodicy are therefore largely a response to initial Seventeenth, and primarily Eighteenth century and forward, secular criticisms of the theology and philosophy of God within religion and Christianity. Hille (2004: 22). 

HILLE, ROLF (2004) ‘A Biblical-Theological Response to the Problem of Theodicy in the Context of the Modern Criticism of Religion’, in Evangelical Review of Theology, Volume 28, Number 1, pp. 21-37. Carlisle, UK, Evangelical Review of Theology.

2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter 

Twitter version 

Theistic and Christian theodicy are therefore largely a response to initial Seventeenth, and primarily Eighteenth century and forward, secular criticisms of the theology and philosophy of God within religion and Christianity.

Zoom: The BC election did not go the way most of us wanted, so I ended up talking theology for a change

Zoom: The BC election did not go the way most of us wanted, so I ended up talking theology for a change

October 25, 2020: 

From what I could tell with our Zoom group members that live in British Columbia, only Miss CIA voted for the victorious New Democratic Party. So, that killed much of the political talk, although we did discuss the last US Presidential debate somewhat and then I gave Michael a short lecture on compatibilism (see website archives if interested), but he has Reformed leanings anyway.

Notice, in the first photo which I took, how the three of us on the right appear to be from the 1920's or like. Appropriate for my theology lecture?

Earlier one of us gave a nice little talk on 'phantom dating'. Not to be confused with Master Arne's dating tips with those overseas, online, potential brides.

For some reason, phantom dating and Master Arne's dating tips yield pretty much the same results...

Second photo is from Mr. Arne Novik

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PhD: Twitter quote 15

PhD: Twitter quote 15

Photo by my friend Ernest Hepnar

2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter 

PhD version

However, I can agree with Durston that even if there is no such thing as gratuitous evil, which is my position, large amounts of evil that appear gratuitous will exist. Durston (2000: 79). This would be evil that I would consider unexplainable, humanly speaking, but would not be gratuitous from God’s perspective. 

DURSTON, KIRK (2000) ‘The Consequential Complexity of History and Gratuitous Evil’, in Religious Studies, Volume 36, pp. 65-80. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Twitter version

Gratuitous evil would be unexplainable, humanly speaking, but would not be gratuitous from God’s perspective. 

Twitter version II 

Within my Reformed theology and connected theistic, philosophy of religion, gratuitous evil would be unexplainable, humanly speaking, but would not be gratuitous from God’s perspective.

PhD: Twitter quote 14

PhD: Twitter quote 14

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Twitter quote

God could have made significantly free human beings, or human like beings who would have been perfectly morally good & would not commit wrong actions. To not create such beings is not a sign of a lack of power, or moral failure. 

PhD quote

I reason that God could have, if he wished, made significantly free human beings, or human like beings who would have been perfectly morally good and would not commit wrong actions. God’s choice not to create such beings, in my mind is not a sign of a lack of power, or moral failure, but rather the use of his own perfect and significantly free will for good purposes. 

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2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter