Southgate's Compound Only-Way Evolutionary Theodicy: Deep Appreciation and Further Directions
Christopher Southgate offers a remarkable evolutionary theodicy that includes six affirmations and arguments; together they form a unique and very persuasive proposal which he terms a compound evolutionary theodicy. Here I summarize the arguments and offer critical reflections on them for further...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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Zygon
Année: 2018, Volume: 53, Numéro: 3, Pages: 711-726 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Southgate, Christopher 1953-
/ Theodicy
/ Evolutionary biology
/ Eschatology
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion CF Christianisme et science NBC Dieu |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
eschatology and cosmology
B cosmic theodicy B compound evolutionary theodicy B co-suffering argument B ambiguous goodness of creation B only way argument B thermodynamics and evolutionary biology |
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| Résumé: | Christopher Southgate offers a remarkable evolutionary theodicy that includes six affirmations and arguments; together they form a unique and very persuasive proposal which he terms a compound evolutionary theodicy. Here I summarize the arguments and offer critical reflections on them for further development, with an emphasis on the ambiguity in the goodness of creation; the role of thermodynamics in evolutionary biology; the challenge of horrendous evil in nature; and the theological response to theodicy in terms of eschatology, with its own severe challenge from cosmology. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12438 |