{"product_id":"exemplarist-theodicy","title":"Exemplarist Theodicy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a novel approach to one of the most formidable challenges to theistic belief: the problem of evil. Integrating insights from contemporary moral philosophy and religious thought, it develops a comprehensive framework for understanding how suffering serves as a necessary condition for exemplar transformation in both humans and non-human animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s central aim is to demonstrate—through what the author terms the \u003cem\u003eExemplarist Theodicy\u003c\/em\u003e—that God allows suffering because it is essential to a four-stage exemplarist transformative process that culminates in the formation of exemplars who ground morality and spread goodness throughout the world through their exemplary lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy systematically analysing this process, the author constructs a unified framework showing how suffering functions not as a design flaw but as a structural feature of a world ordered toward exemplarity and creative flourishing. Engaging with both classical theodicies and anti-theodicy positions, the author offers a fresh articulation that addresses both human and animal suffering. Drawing on recent philosophical resources—including Robust Normative Realism, Natural Law theory, cognitive ethology, and exemplarist moral theory—he formulates a cohesive response that applies to logical, evidential, and hiddenness formulations of the problem of evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Exemplarist Theodicy: A Philosophical Response to the Problem of Evil\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of religion, theology, and ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56254705467736,"sku":"9781041267652","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781041267652.jpg?v=1779429677","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/exemplarist-theodicy","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}