Free Will and Soul‐Making Theodicies

In Justin P. McBrayer & Daniel Howard-Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to The Problem of Evil. Wiley. pp. 205–221 (2014)
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Abstract

Appeals to the respective values of free will and of moral and spiritual development (soul‐making) have long been lynchpins in the project of theodicy. The two most prominent contemporary efforts at systematic and comprehensive theodicy have been executed by John Hick and Richard Swinburne, both of whom appeal explicitly to these values. This chapter sympathetically explicates their appeals to these values and considers some of the challenges facing any theodicy that follows them in doing so.

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