Summary

Question 1

Which two theodicies are compatible with he idea of the God of classical theism?

Answer 1

Augustinian

Irenaean

Question 2

what is meant by God of classical theism

Answer 2

• we have to modify our ideas of God’s benevolence
  example
  if God allows us to endure suffering in the knowledge that we develop as people in overcoming it, rather like the parents who knows we learn lessons by making our own mistakes

Question 3

What does the Augustinian theodicy preserve the idea of

Answer 3

God’s justice

• evildoers are punished in hell
• it frees God form direct responsibility as it is claimed he did not create evil

Question 4

What does the Augustinian theodicy not fit with?

Answer 4

The scientific theories of The Big Bang or Evolution

Question 5

What does the Irenaean theodicy give purpose to? and what does this help us do?

Answer 5

suffering

- helps draw us closer to God

Question 6

What doesn’t the Irenaean theodicy not explain

Answer 6

Why some people do suffer and others don’t

Question 7

What does the process theodicy do that it shouldn’t

Answer 7

Questions God’s nature, so not accepted by some scholars

Question 8

Evil and suffering are a major part to what argument

Answer 8

The argument against God

Question 9

However what could evil and suffering offer

Answer 9

the possibility that they’re just part of God’s plan for humanity