Augustinian Theodicy Flashcards
1
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Augustinian Theodicy Summary
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- Creation
- Evil Explanation
- Intervention
- Pre-destination
- Aesthetic Theory
- Contrast Theory
2
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Perfect world (C)
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- God is prefect and God created the world.
2. Therefore God made a perfect world.
3
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Creation support in Bible (C)
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“God saw all that he had made and it was very good” - Genesis 1:31
4
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What is Evil (EE)
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- Evil is simply the absence of good.
5
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Free will (EE)
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- God gave humans free will
2. When humans choose to disobey God, they create an ‘absence of good within themselves.’
6
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Adam and Eve (EE)
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- The sin of Adam and Eve destroyed the state of perfection.
- This is the doctrine of the fall of man and the doctrine of original sin.
7
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Evil Explanation Summary
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- What is Evil?
- Free will
- Adam and Eve
8
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Creation Summary
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- Perfect World
2. Support in the Bible
9
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Justice (I)
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- God is fair and just.
- He shows his justice by not intervening.
10
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Sin (I)
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- “All evil is either sin, or the punishment for sin”
11
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Intervention Summary
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- Justice
2. Sin
12
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John Calvin (PD)
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God actually orchestrated original sin
13
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Pre-destination (PD)
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God knew in advance who would sin and who wouldn’t
14
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Morally Beautiful World (AT)
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- An idea that from a distance all goods and evil came together to make a morally beautiful world
15
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We need to see the bigger picture. (AT)
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- We just need to see the bigger picture.
- We would then see that evil is needed to balance everything out in the end.
