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Tim MiddletonChristians in Science Student Conference 2014
Earthquakes and EvilThe problem with theodicy
Identifying faults from space
Images of the Daluoshan Fault in northern China from the Worldview satellite
Voltaire: ‘Poem on the Lisbon Disaster’
“These women, these infants heaped one upon the other, these limbs scattered beneath marbles; the hundred thousand unfortunates whom the earth devours, who—bleeding and torn, still palpitating, interred beneath their roots—end their lamentable days without comfort, amid the horror of their torment!”
Four possible theodicies
• Evil is necessary• A cosmic fall• An angelic fall• Kenosis and the price of freedom
Four possible theodicies
• Evil is necessary• A cosmic fall• An angelic fall• Kenosis and the price of freedom
Four possible theodicies
• Evil is necessary• A cosmic fall• An angelic fall• Kenosis and the price of freedom
Four possible theodicies
• Evil is necessary• A cosmic fall• An angelic fall• Kenosis and the price of freedom
Four possible theodicies
• Evil is necessary• A cosmic fall• An angelic fall• Kenosis and the price of freedom
Gabriel Marcel: the problem with theodicy
“But evil which is only stated or observed is no longer evil which is suffered: in fact, it ceases to be evil. In reality, I can only grasp evil in the measure in which it touches me—that is to say, in the measure in which I am involved, as one is involved in a lawsuit.”