Soul Making Theodicies : Hicks

Question 1

What theodicies does Hicks use ?

Answer 1

Irenaen theodicies

Question 2

What does Hicks believe ?

Answer 2

Evil as a process of development and opportunity to help thesis

Question 3

What does Hick soul- making explain ?

Answer 3

Why God allows evil and suffering as it is necessary part of character development

Question 4

What is character development doing for the world ?

Answer 4

God shaping the world to perfection

Question 5

Christian’s use irenaean theodicies to link to what ?

Answer 5

Genesis

Question 6

How did God create humans ?

Answer 6

Humans in his own imagine and likeness

Question 7

How much free will be according to Hicks ?

Answer 7

Free-will must be complete and genuine

Question 8

What does true freedom entail according to Hicks ?

Answer 8

Entails possibility of suffering and evil

Question 9

What do we get from God ?

Answer 9

Divine inaction

Question 10

What is divine inaction ?

Answer 10

God does not intervene with evil

Question 11

What link does God have with humanity ?

Answer 11

Epistemic distance

Question 12

What is empistemic distance ?

Answer 12

Gap in knowledge between us and God to give us space to use our freedom fully

Question 13

What does epistemic distance allow ?

Answer 13

Gives us space to use our freedom fully

Question 14

What did hick believe in ?

Answer 14

Instrumentally good

Question 15

What is instrumentally good ?

Answer 15

Something good for a purpose

Question 16

Why is the world instrumentally good ?

Answer 16

• World is instrumentally good for our development into Gods likeness
• suffering and evil is instrumentally good to development Gods likeness

Question 17

What does this all link to ?

Answer 17

Hicks famous phrase of vale of soul making

Question 18

What does free- will allow according to Hicks ?

Answer 18

• freely choose relationship with God
• response to evil and suffering
• develop our virtues to develop and grow as people

Question 19

How does Hicks see hell as ?

Answer 19

• sees hell as temporary for character development

Question 20

What does it evil allow ?

Answer 20

To preprare for universal salvation of heaven to be ready

Question 21

Easy Critism of Hicks ?

Answer 21

• do not always have a good character development
• if God is powerful and perfect why did he create imperfect world

Question 22

Which is more convincing logical or evidential problem of evil )

Answer 22

Logical problem of evil as better to have free- will then act like robots (automata ) God has to allow free Will means God is fair