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The development of process theology has challenged the Irenaean tradition by teaching that God using suffering for his own ends would be immoral. Twentieth-century philosopher Alvin Plantinga's freewill defense argues that, while this may be the best world God could have created, God's options were limited by the need to allow freewill.
The recognition of evils in the world and in ourselves is the recognition that the world and ourselves, as we find them, are less than fully existent because we do not perfectly love God, the Good. Karl Barth viewed the evil of human suffering as ultimately in the "control of divine providence ". [ 89 ]
[7] [8] Thomas à Kempis, on the other hand, presented a path to The Imitation of Christ based on a focus on the interior life and withdrawal from the world. [ 9 ] The theme of imitation of Christ existed in all phases of Byzantine theology , and in the 14th-century book Life in Christ Nicholas Cabasilas viewed "living one's own personal life ...
On Dec. 7 at North Henderson High School, 11th grader Citlally Diaz, 17, was honored for winning one of just four $3,000 scholarship grand prize awards out of thousands of entries across the country.
Epicurus was not an atheist, although he rejected the idea of a god concerned with human affairs; followers of Epicureanism denied the idea that there was no god. While the conception of a supreme, happy and blessed god was the most popular during his time, Epicurus rejected such a notion, as he considered it too heavy a burden for a god to have to worry about all the problems in the world.
He compares the popular knowledge of the world in Thomas Aquinas's time to what we now know about the world. He uses the example of Laplace—"It works well enough without that [God] hypothesis" [19] —to demonstrate that we do not need God to explain things; he claims that religion becomes obsolete as an explanation when it becomes optional ...
Dec. 12—In its ongoing mission to support community, youth, and education, members of Austin's VFW recently awarded Pacelli Catholic Schools with a generous check for $1,000. This recognition is ...
In 1948 radio host Drew Pearson held an essay-writing contest with a $5,000 prize. The winner was a now Sun City resident’s grandfather and she says that 75 years later, its something the ...