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Soul Making Theodicies : Hicks Flashcards

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What theodicies does Hicks use ?

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Irenaen theodicies

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What does Hicks believe ?

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Evil as a process of development and opportunity to help thesis

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What does Hick soul- making explain ?

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

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What is character development doing for the world ?

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God shaping the world to perfection

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Christian’s use irenaean theodicies to link to what ?

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Genesis

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How did God create humans ?

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Humans in his own imagine and likeness

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How much free will be according to Hicks ?

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Free-will must be complete and genuine

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What does true freedom entail according to Hicks ?

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Entails possibility of suffering and evil

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9
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What do we get from God ?

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Divine inaction

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10
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What is divine inaction ?

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God does not intervene with evil

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11
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What link does God have with humanity ?

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Epistemic distance

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What is empistemic distance ?

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

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What does epistemic distance allow ?

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Gives us space to use our freedom fully

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14
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What did hick believe in ?

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Instrumentally good

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What is instrumentally good ?

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Something good for a purpose

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16
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Why is the world instrumentally good ?

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  • World is instrumentally good for our development into Gods likeness
  • suffering and evil is instrumentally good to development Gods likeness
17
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What does this all link to ?

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Hicks famous phrase of vale of soul making

18
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What does free- will allow according to Hicks ?

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  • freely choose relationship with God
  • response to evil and suffering
  • develop our virtues to develop and grow as people
19
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How does Hicks see hell as ?

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  • sees hell as temporary for character development
20
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What does it evil allow ?

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To preprare for universal salvation of heaven to be ready

21
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Easy Critism of Hicks ?

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  • do not always have a good character development
  • if God is powerful and perfect why did he create imperfect world
22
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Which is more convincing logical or evidential problem of evil )

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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

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