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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1. VerfasserIn: Russell, Robert J. 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
In: Zygon
Jahr: 2018, Band: 53, Heft: 3, Seiten: 711-726
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Southgate, Christopher 1953- / Theodizee / Evolutionsbiologie / Eschatologie
RelBib Classification:AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus
CF Christentum und Wissenschaft
NBC Gotteslehre
weitere Schlagwörter: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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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1467-9744
Enthält:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12438