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  2. Religious responses to the problem of evil - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church believes the answer to the problem of evil lies in evil's conqueror, Jesus. [72] Because of this, the church teaches, every aspect of Christian doctrine - the goodness of the Universe, the reign of sin, God's covenants with Israel, the Paschal Mystery, the church itself, the sacraments of healing, etc. - is a part of the ...

  3. Preservative redemption - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church has developed the doctrine of preservative redemption to include the Eucharist, teaching ever since the Council of Trent that a fruit of Holy Communion is preservation from future temptation and future mortal sin. This is because the soul is enkindled with divine love, so that the more of Jesus one receives the harder it ...

  4. List of heresies in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    A major dualistic religion stating that good and evil are equally powerful, and that material things are evil. Founded in 210–276 AD by Mani: Condemned by Emperor Theodosius I decree in 382: Thrived between the 3rd and 7th centuries and appears to have died out before the 16th century in southern China. Paulicianism: A Gnostic and dualistic sect

  5. Exorcism in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    [4] The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "When the Church asks publicly and authoritatively in the name of Jesus Christ that a person or object be protected against the power of the Evil One and withdrawn from his dominion, it is called exorcism." [3] The Catholic Church revised the Rite of Exorcism in January 1999. [5]

  6. Problem of Hell - Wikipedia

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    With regards to the problem of hell, as one that can be traced to the more fundamental theological dilemma of God and the existence of good and evil, theodicy offers its own answers. The main issue holds that if God is all good, powerful, and perfect, then how can he allow evil and, by extension, hell to exist?

  7. Absence of good - Wikipedia

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    The absence of good (Latin: privatio boni), also known as the privation theory of evil, [1] is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking of it as an entity is misleading. Instead, evil is rather the absence, or lack ("privation"), of good.

  8. Embolism (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    The embolism in Christian liturgy (from Greek ἐμβολισμός (embolismos) 'an interpolation') is a short prayer said or sung after the Lord's Prayer.It functions "like a marginal gloss" upon the final petition of the Lord's Prayer (". . . deliver us from evil"), amplifying and elaborating on "the many implications" of that prayer. [1]

  9. Augustinian theodicy - Wikipedia

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    Here he suggests that whilst an extended formulation of Augustine's presentation of the free-will theodicy can answer the problems of global human and natural evil, it is incapable of answering what he calls local arguments from evil, which focus upon specific instances of evil that could have been removed from the world for the better without ...