Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy
Both as a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this book, Professor Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops an...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:20.500.12657/22393 2023-05-15T18:11:46+02:00 Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy Pihlström, Sami 2020-01-01 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22393 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12657/22393 en eng 20.500.12657/22393 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22393 undefined OAPEN Library Society and social sciences relig hisphilso Book https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_2f33/ 2020 fttriple https://doi.org/20.500.12657/22393 2023-01-22T17:02:13Z Both as a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this book, Professor Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops an antitheodicist view, arguing that theodicies seeking to render apparently meaningless suffering meaningful or justified from a “God’s-Eye-View” ultimately rely on metaphysical realism failing to recognize the individual perspective of the sufferer. Pihlström thus shows that a pragmatist approach to the realism issue in the philosophy of religion is a vital starting point for a re-evaluation of the problem of theodicy. Book sami Unknown |
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Both as a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this book, Professor Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops an antitheodicist view, arguing that theodicies seeking to render apparently meaningless suffering meaningful or justified from a “God’s-Eye-View” ultimately rely on metaphysical realism failing to recognize the individual perspective of the sufferer. Pihlström thus shows that a pragmatist approach to the realism issue in the philosophy of religion is a vital starting point for a re-evaluation of the problem of theodicy. |
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