Swinburne's Theodicy Research Paper
The aim of this paper is to reduce Swinburne’s Christian centered theodicy into a pantheistic theodicy via modification of Spinoza’s necessitarianism. To begin, I will accept the imperative conditions of Swinburne’s theodicy up to a certain degree. Consequently, the primary condition Swinburne’s theodicy and my proposal each share is the consequentialist disposition of the Divine. However, the noted degree at which these theodicies will deviate is the condition demanding objective moral judgments. In particular, the deviation occurs where Swinburne asserts “the problem of evil does not arise if one denies either the omnipotence or the perfect goodness of God”. And so that is where the central divide between the two views comes into play. The