Event Title
A Mea Culpa for The Felix Culpa? A Greater Goods Response to the Problems of Evil and Hell
Location
Inman E. Page Library, Room 100, Lincoln University
Start Date
10-4-2008 9:00 AM
End Date
10-4-2008 9:50 AM
Description
In this paper I want to develop a particular kind of greater-good response to the problems of evil and hell, one which hence can serve as a backup plan should the free will defense not satisfy. Ultimately, this response will appear to belong to several traditions in theodicy. Like all greater-goods views, this one relies on explaining the existence of evil in terms of the greater goods that come out of it. Among these goods are the greater goods of Incarnation and Atonement, their respective goodness consisting in large part in the higher-order divine good of glorifying God through the display of divine virtue.
A Mea Culpa for The Felix Culpa? A Greater Goods Response to the Problems of Evil and Hell
Inman E. Page Library, Room 100, Lincoln University
In this paper I want to develop a particular kind of greater-good response to the problems of evil and hell, one which hence can serve as a backup plan should the free will defense not satisfy. Ultimately, this response will appear to belong to several traditions in theodicy. Like all greater-goods views, this one relies on explaining the existence of evil in terms of the greater goods that come out of it. Among these goods are the greater goods of Incarnation and Atonement, their respective goodness consisting in large part in the higher-order divine good of glorifying God through the display of divine virtue.
