EVOLUTIONARY THEODICY,REDEMPTION, AND TIME |
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| Authors: | Mark Ian Thomas Robson |
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| Abstract: | Of the many problems which evolutionary theodicy tries to address, the ones of animal suffering and extinction seem especially intractable. In this essay, I show how C. D. Broad's growing block conception of time does much to ameliorate the problems. Additionally, I suggest it leads to another way of understanding the soul. Instead of it being understood as a substance, it is seen as a history—a history which is resurrected in the end times. Correspondingly, redemption, I argue, should not be seen as an event which redeems some future portion of time. God's triumph is over all of history, not just some future temporal portion. |
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| Keywords: | growing block view of time Jü rgen Moltmann Wolfhart Pannenberg redemption Robert John Russell Christopher Southgate |
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