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James Wood Op-Ed - Assails all theodicy & invocation of God, after Haiti - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Frederick Smith on 11 Feb 10
     
    New Yorker writer James Wood addresses different theodicies (God punishing or teaching, or self-comforting) in "Between God and a Hard Place," Sunday, 1/24/10
Frederick Smith

Letters re James Wood's Post-Haiti Anti-Theodicy Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Out of Tragedy, Questions About God: 4 out of 5 letters (surprising proportion for NYTimes) object to Wood's either/or view of theodicy: if God is omnipotent (& doesn't prevent suffering), he is cruel; if God is loving and good (and only comforts, but doesn't prevent suffering), he is weak and worth ignoring. They affirm the mystery "that God is deeply present in and through the events of the world - often inscrutably, but always powerfully and lovingly - and though we cannot for the life of us see how, even catastrophes include divine presence and power." A Christian notes that fellow believer "might counter [that] suffering and death come to all, even to a God who in his love took on our mortal, vulnerable condition as his own."
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