Abstract Barth responds to the modern lack of language for talking evil by developing concept das Nichtige ( CD III/3, §50). ‘ Das ’ – which ‘nothingness’ is an insufficient translation encompasses not only sin, but also demonic dimension evil, as well physical suffering and death, without reducing it a harmartiocentric perspective. Compared with traditional concepts, this leads almost unbearab...

Pierre Bayle and the impossibility of a rational debate on evil
 I claim that engaged with theodicy in order to show how philosophy was misused religious matters. For Bayle, evil does not oppose dichotomically reason religion, it just requires participants deal revealed truths using alone. In this regard, only criticize Calvinist theologians his time, but also very source Christian theolog...

Punished by God without conducting evil, Job becomes suspicious of theodicy. His attitudes towards the world, life and have been subverted rebuilt owing to his affliction. The changed outlooks confuse torture him so that he keeps asking questions in order figure out reason meaning own suffering, which shows intelligence sensibility as a human being. This makes remarkable literary image with tin...

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It may legitimately be asked, “What is a psychiatrist doing delving into the longstanding philosophical question about the nature of evil?” As we know, finding meaning and redefining reality to incorporate the experience of trauma is a fundamental task for the survivor of overwhelming life experiences (Herman, 1992; McCann and Pearlman, 1990; Janoff-Bulman, 1992). So too, is it one of the funda...

In his paper Richard Swinburne argues that an adequate theodicy must be offered to support the probabilistic argument for ‘best acting-God’ hypothesis. The adequacy of such a consists in, among other things, it can explain every bad state universe is logically necessary condition existence good state, at least comparable it, and God, acting in best possible way, has right allow sake makes possi...