Hick Theodicy Scholars Views

Question 1

J L Mackie

Answer 1

• Could our world be more hospitable and still teach us?

- “Why could (God) not have made men such that they always freely choose the good?

Question 2

D Z Phillips

Answer 2

• Suffering can never be an expression of (God’s) love

- evil as a means to an end is not morally justifiable

Question 3

F Dostoyevsky

Answer 3

Ivan Karamazov refuses to believe in a God who allows innocent children to suffer

Question 4

Hume

Answer 4

The extent of evil - why would God not intervene sometimes to prevent excessive evils?