The Concept of Divine Omnipotence in Hygen's Theodicy : A Critical Survey

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Associate Professor, Department of Religions & Philosophy, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

10.22080/jepr.2025.28909.1271

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Divine Omnipotence is one of the most important God's attribute that its consistency with other God's attribute and also with the problem of evil, was one of the key issues in the history of philosophy especially in for the philosophers oh religion. In the present article we will try to notice to the theological views of one of the contemporary philosophers of religion, means John Hygen. He by noticing to the concept of Omnipotence in the history of Christianity, try to show that this concept according to the Christian tradition con not solve the challenge between God's absolute attribute and the problem of evil. In his view, so we should survey this concept critically and raise a new interpretation for that. He says that we may put the concept Omnipotence as a concept of love and accord to the theology of love. So he at some degree, near to the process tradition in theology and some of the critical issues for this theology can be also assigned to the Hygen's interpretation of the concept Omnipotence.

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