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The basic structure of coherent teleological theodicy as it surfaces in the view of Leibniz and Hick is as follows: The telos is personal and moral relationship with God in participation in a divine life that is analogous in certain respects to this life. Freedom is necessary to the moral and personal development of humanity in an environment suitable to the realisation of divine likeness. Evil arises as negative side-effect of human autonomy and in terms of obstacles in the natural world, and its justification will become clear in the future eschaton.
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Kant’s ‘On the Failure of all Attempted Philosophical Theodicies’ in M. Despland (tr.), Kant on History and Religion (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1973) pp. 283–97.
Ann Loades, ‘Kant and Job’s Comforters’ in Stephen Sykes and Derek Holmes (eds), New Studies in Theology, Vol. 1 (London: Gerald Duckworth, 1980) p. 129.
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Stoeber, M. (1992). Problems and Issues in Traditional Theodicy. In: Evil and the Mystics’ God. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12653-8_6
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