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Christian Theodicy: A Critique of William Gass’s Anti-Theology

Dennis Lee Sansom

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This paper presents a justification for a Christian theodicy. It starts by critiquing William H. Gass’s depiction of Christianity as superstitious, ignorant, and evil. It shows that his view is based on a caricature (that is, God as a quasi-gnostic Demiurge) of the Christian understanding of God and evil and totally ignores and misses the contributions of (what I call) the Classical View of theodicy within the Christian intellectual tradition (that is, from Origen to Karl Barth). I also evaluate the underlying nihilism of Gass’s writings as self-refuting and furthermore argue that a Christian theodicy overcomes this nihilism and encourages a “vocation of the good”.

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Religions. Mythology. Rationalism

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Dennis Lee Sansom

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Sansom, D.L. (2022). Christian Theodicy: A Critique of William Gass’s Anti-Theology. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14010002

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Tahun Terbit: 2022
Sumber Database: DOAJ
DOI: 10.3390/rel14010002
Akses: Open Access ✓