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| | Theodicy: Dissonance in Theory and Praxis |
 | | I argue, therefore, that healing itself is a seriatim process, a tacking into the wind, an alternation between empowerment and desire for revenge, between acceptance and protest, between love and rage. |
 | | The fierce objection to the theodicy of abuse and seriatim healing flows from a very, very deep pre-judgement about the non-evil, omnibenevolent nature of the divine, the evidence from the common sense view of reality as well as from the tradition to the contrary notwithstanding. |
 | | A theodicy of abuse and protest set in the context of seriatim healing, although it challenges the more usual views, seems to me to accomplish this and, hence, would appear to be a "better" theodicy, in theory as well as in praxis. |
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