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THE PROBLEM OF EVIL + SUFFERING - Coggle Diagram
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL + SUFFERING
Key Terms - Moral Evil
Acts committed by human beings, such as murder, theft, rape
It can also refer to evil that comes from human inaction - e.g. where someone does not help another person who is in danger
Key Terms - Natural Evil
Suffering caused by nature/the natural world -e.g. disease, starvation, storms, floods, earthquakes + tsunamis
Usually seen as being produced by the chance operation of the laws of nature (a flood does not 'intend' or 'choose' to drown you
Key Terms - Suffering
A mental or physical pain/hardship/distress brought about by both moral + natural evil
Key Terms - The Fall
Moment in the Book of Genesis when Adam + Eve sat from the Tree of Knowledge
As a result, sin enters the world
Key Terms - Original Sin
St Augustine
Doctrine that, as a result of The Fall, all humans are born innately sinful
We 'inherit' a tendency to sin
Key Terms - Theodicy
A philosophical defence of God's goodness, power and even existence in the face of reality of evil
Key Terms - Epistemic Distance
A distance of knowledge
The world operates in such a way that humans cannot know from it that there is a God
Key Terms - Universalism
The belief that ultimately all humans will be saved and enjoy eternity with God
Key Terms - Causal Determinism
The idea that every event is caused by preceding events + conditions and by the laws of nature
Therefore, humans do not have free will
Key Terms - Process Theology
Rejection of traditional belief that God created the universe 'ex nihlio' - the universe in uncreated + eternal, like God
The universe and God exist together; the universe in God + God is in the universe
They have a panentheistic relationship
Key Terms - Soul-making theodicy
Belief that the world is a 'vale of soul-making'
Evil + Suffering is required to enable spiritual growth (and therefore salvation)