I Will Show You My Faith by My Works
Addressing the Nexus between Philosophical Theodicy and Human Suffering and Loss in Contexts of 'Natural' Disaster
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3372678 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Philip Abbott (0000-0001-6804-0162, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel10030213 |
| OpenAlex | W2924116107 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
As a practical theologian and researcher in the field of 'natural' disasters, as well as being a disaster responder chaplain, I am often confronted by, and have to confront, the nexus between theology/philosophy and "real life" in extremely traumatic contexts. The extreme suffering that is often the consequence of catastrophic natural disasters warrants solutions that can help vulnerable populations recover and adapt to live safely with natural hazards. For many practice-based responders, speculative theological/philosophical reflections around situations that are often human-caused seem predominantly vacuous exercises, potentially diverting attention away from the empiricism of causal human agency. In this article, I explore a middle ground involving a nuanced methodological approach to theodicy that is practical but no less intellectually demanding, that is theological more than philosophical, practical more than theoretical; a middle ground that also takes seriously the human culpability as causal for the human, and some would say the divine, suffering from disasters. I will include in this exploration my ethnographic fieldwork following the catastrophic earthquake to hit the Caribbean nation of Haiti in 2010
Criminology · Culpability · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Faith · Geography · Human condition · Human life · Humanity · Natural disaster · Non-human · Political science · Sociology · Theodicy · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · History · Law · Philosophy
Haiti and the Americas
The Angry Earth
The Science of Adaptation
Aids and Accusation
Invitation to Research in Practical Theology
Doing Interviews
Writing Trauma
Haiti and the Historical Construction of Disasters
The Rainy Season
Personal Knowledge and beyond
Therapeutic Theodicy? Suffering, Struggle, and the Shift from the God's-Eye View
Theodicies as Failures of Recognition
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |