ABSTRACT

Bethany Sollereder’s recent work God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering attempts a novel treatment of the topic of evolutionary theodicy. While her contribution delivers several brilliant insights, its reliance upon the “Only Way” defense, open theism, and kenotic theology leaves it open for critique. After outlining these points, I propose two solutions to supplement her defense—namely Alvin Plantinga’s theory of transworld depravity and a primordial fall of the “messengers”. With these additions, I conclude that the narratival theodicy that emerges is logically tighter, Christocentric, and therapeutic to the sufferer.

摘要

贝瑟尼·索勒雷德 (Bethany Sollereder) 最近的著作《上帝、进化论和动物的苦难》尝试以一种新颖的方式处理进化神正论的主题。虽然她的贡献提供了一些精彩的见解，但其对“唯一道路”辩护、开放有神论和虚神神学的依赖使其容易受到批评。在概述了这些要点之后，我提出了两个解决方案来补充她的辩护——即阿尔文·普兰丁格的跨世界堕落理论和“信使”的原始堕落理论。通过这些补充，我得出的结论是，出现的叙事神正论在逻辑上更加严格，以基督为中心，并且对受害者有治疗作用。