RE John Hick s essay The Soul Making Theodicy
John Hick’s essay, “The Soul-Making Theodicy” addresses the issue of suffering, pain and evil in Christianity. He starts his essay with describing St. ... According to Hick St. ... Hick had a similar approach in his essay. ... Hick continues that in the light of modern anthropology how a two-stage conception of human creation is the belief of modern Christianity. ... In this picture human’s effort, the pain and suffering that one might go through to do good and to become a good and moral being is judged and valued by God. ... ” is David Hums argument which Hick addresses in his essay. He believes the soul making only had value if it was through humans own choice which might include suffering. ... Hick uses the analogy of God being the heavenly Father of man kind; he describes how good parents who want their children to become good human beings cannot put pleasure as the sole value in their children’s life. ... Hick’s last part of the essay is about his reasons for, why there should be evil using -according to his own words- “counter-factual hypothesis”.