Richard Bauckham on God, Evil & Closure
15 Jan
“[The resurrection of Jesus] bursts open the constraints of nature and history, promising an overwhelming good of a kind that will not, like any immanent theodicy, leave out the dead, the victims of history whose fate can never be justified by any product of history. Closure — meaning a finally satisfactory resolution of the problem of God’s goodness in the world — is found in trust and hope, not in some explanation of the world that makes sense of evil, and still less in the claim of human power to eradicate the evil that human reason has understood.”
Agree? Disagree? Give me your thoughts…
Resurrection is my favourite theology – and this is one of the reasons why.
Well, it’s ok if you’re part of the resurrrection to eternal life but otherwise I don’t think the resurrection per se brings ‘closure’ to the question of why God sends people to hell or is, on its own, a satisfactory theodicy, it may be part of the answer but not the complete answer.