Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of Analytic Theology
Abstract
Marilyn McCord Adams argues that God’s goodness to individuals requires God to defeat horrendous evils; it is not enough for God to outweigh these evils through compensatory goods. On her view, God defeats the evils experienced by an individual if and only if God’s goodness to the individual enables her to integrate the evil organically into a unified life story she perceives as good and meaningful. In this essay, we seek to apply Adams’s theodicy of defeat to a particular form of suffering. We argue that God’s goodness to individuals requires that God defeat the suffering to which a range of disabilities can give rise.
First Page
100
Last Page
120
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12978/jat.v5i1.148
Publication Date
5-2017
Recommended Citation
Timpe, Kevin and Cobb, Aaron D., "Disability and the Theodicy of Defeat" (2017). University Faculty Publications and Creative Works. 644.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/calvin_facultypubs/644
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Christianity Commons, Disability and Equity in Education Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons