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• Title:
  Evolutionary Explanations of Pain and Suffering:: A ‘Gift to Theology’ or a Challenge
• Creator:
  Oviedo, Lluis Oviedo
• Description:
  Evolutionary studies have provided several explanations about how pain and suffering can be fitted into that framework, which tries to make sense of every biological and human feature in terms of evolution, survival, and fitness. These explanations point usually to how such apparently negative aspects become useful and contribute to an evolution that after all has delivered good outcomes. Such an approach might eventually render the theodicy question less sharp and critical for believers who are trying to cope with the scandal of so great suffering in our world and history. Theologically we can welcome such new insights, less noticed in former tradition, but at the same time we need to be cautious before a development which could render less clear the message of Christian salvation. In any case, the new data and knowledge clearly invite to revise and reformulate the Christian salvific message, to better answer before the mystery of evil and suffering.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2024 Lluis Oviedo Oviedo
• Date:
  2024.04.09
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Scientia et Fides; Vol. 12 No. 1 (2024): The Dynamic Theodicy Model: Understanding God, Evil, and Evolution; 89-105;
  Scientia et Fides; Tom 12 Nr 1 (2024): The Dynamic Theodicy Model: understanding God, Evil and Evolution; 89-105;
  2353-5636;
  2300-7648
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/44510/38245
• Subject:
  health;
  grace;
  salvation;
  cultural;
  evolution;
  altruism
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/44510
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text