The Participation Theodicy | John Buck | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #17

🔍 Overview: In this episode, John and Sam sit down together to explore the various nuances of 'The Problem of Evil' and what John's theodicy, 'The Participation Theodicy,' brings to the table to tackle it.

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🗣️ Highlights
[Highlight 1]: What is The Problem of Evil, and how does The Participation Theodicy aim to solve it?
[Highlight 2]: Should God be held to account for the evils we experience within this world?
[Highlight 3]: What is gratuitous suffering, and can we ever really settle its reality with the idea of a good God?

🕒 Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
2:45 - Who's John Buck?
6:54 - The Two-fold Problem of Evil
10:02 - Theodicy Evaluation
13:56 - Theodicy Presumptions
17:35 - 'The Participation Theodicy' Presented
26:49 - Exploring Evil
30:57 - The 'Ideal' World
38:47 - God's Foreknowledge
46:00 - Moral and Natural Evils (and Blame)
59:40 - Gratuitous Surrering
1:05:31 - God and Positive Actuality
1:10:18 - Adding to God's Goodness
1:36:07 - Creatures and Participation
1:42:51 - The Finite to The Eternal
1:48:51 - Moral Limits and God's Intervention
1:58:38 - Does God Gamble? (Technological Advances)
2:05:55 - Non-Refutable Theodicies
2:11:07 - The Purely Idealised World and Free Will
2:19:31 - Non-Consensual Suffering
2:29:21 - Compensation
2:37:23 - The Horror Scale
2:43:08 - Mars2 Analogy (Moral Evils & The Great Reset)
2:54:15 - Sin and Choice
3:01:49 - Tree of Life Analogy (Natural Evils)
3:20:07 - Possible Counter Argument
3:33:10 - Closing Remarks

📚 Episode Resources (affiliate links where possible - thanks!)
John's Paper - The Participation Theodicy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_jOt6s8vHMn0S8T_fwIJDZUJdHAq-MeS/view?usp=sharing
John's Twitter: https://x.com/WriterJohnBuck
John's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa7YI9a0kyqpsQM8G3H5f_A
John's Substack: https://thebuckneverstops.substack.com
John and Emerson on Evil: https://youtu.be/VjiseJXa2yQ?si=WnOAO_ZhQroptImC
John and Emerson on Universalism: https://youtu.be/ejThab1x3lo?si=RkN9OceErJ6l_Joa
Beth Seacord: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-seacord-b190411b8/
Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God by Marilyn McCord Adams: https://amzn.to/3xoy2rz
Nick Bostrom: https://nickbostrom.com

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