Anti-theodicy

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Trakakis, Nick N.. (2018). Anti-theodicy. In In J. Gellman, C. Taliaferro and C. Meister (Ed.). The history of evil from the mid-twentieth century to today: 1950-2018 CE pp. 137 - 151 Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351139601-10
AuthorsTrakakis, Nick N.
EditorsJ. Gellman, C. Taliaferro and C. Meister
Abstract

This chapter aims to examine the anti-theodicy view as it has been developed in two publications that bear some affinities with previous proposals, while marking out a distinctive and challenging position of their own. The notion of anti-theodicy is liable to confuse and mislead on a number of fronts. It may be supposed that the rejection of theodicy enshrined in anti-theodicy is no different from the typical atheological rebuttals of theodicy, for example, the writings of J. L. Mackie and H. J. McCloskey. Sympathetic treatments of anti-theodicy are also to be found outside of Jewish thought, especially in much recent Christian theology and in so-called Continental or European philosophy. By contrast, the Anglo-American analytic tradition of philosophy has spawned relatively few discussions of anti-theodicy. Where Gleeson's anti-theodicy is motivated by Ivan Karamazov's challenge, Burrell's rejection of theodicy draws upon a much earlier and even better-known challenge: that of Job in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Page range137 - 151
Year2018
Book titleThe history of evil from the mid-twentieth century to today: 1950-2018 CE
PublisherRoutledge
Place of publicationLondon, United Kingdom
ISBN9781351139588
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351139601-10
Research GroupSchool of Philosophy
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Journal citationVolume VI, pp. 137 - 151
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