"Traditional theological strategies which seek to reconcile the existence of God and evil fail more on moral than logical grounds. Theodicies, the theological and philosophical justifications of God in the face of evil, deprecate the human moral understanding of good and evil and leave in their wake a deity devoid of those moral features commonly recognized in the Biblical and liturgical tradition of monotheism. The author proposes a shift of focus from God as unknowable subject to the predicates ascribed to God and ...
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"Traditional theological strategies which seek to reconcile the existence of God and evil fail more on moral than logical grounds. Theodicies, the theological and philosophical justifications of God in the face of evil, deprecate the human moral understanding of good and evil and leave in their wake a deity devoid of those moral features commonly recognized in the Biblical and liturgical tradition of monotheism. The author proposes a shift of focus from God as unknowable subject to the predicates ascribed to God and identified as godly. Not the attributes of divinity, but the divinity of the attributes are the proper concerns of theology. The question asked of the reader is not whether they believe in the existence of the Noun "God," but whether they believe in the reality of the moral predicates of God. Thus, not "Do you believe that God is just, merciful and peace-making?" but "Do you believe that doing justice, practicing mercy and making peace are godly?" Godliness is found not in the nouns but in the gerunds (e.g., loving, healing, protecting). Godliness, or Elohuth, is not lodged in a Thou or an It, but in the discoverable predicates of divinity. In Godliness, believing is behavioral, the moral attributes emulatable, and faith consequential"--Data View.
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