On Letting Go of Theodicy: Marilyn McCord Adams on God and Evil

摘要: Marilyn McCord Adams agrees with D. Z. Phillips that instrumental theodicy is a moral failure, and sceptical theists others are guilty of ignoring what we know now (in this life) about the reality horrendous evils to speculate unknown ways these might be made sense of. In place theodicy, advocates ‘the logic compensation’ for victims evil, postmortem healing divine intimacy God. This goes so deep, she believes, eventually will see horrors they suffered as points contact incarnate, suffering God cease wishing had never them. I argue Adams’s position falls foul very criticisms make against theodicy.