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1
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What did John Hick develop?

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The Irenaean theodicy

2
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What did Hick say about the world?

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The World is a Vale of Soul Making, and in the world, pain is necessary because it teaches us what is valuable and dangerous

3
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What did John Hick say genuine choice requires?

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Genuine consequences

4
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What are the three main points Hick makes?

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Freedom of action, freedom of understanding and freedom to love

5
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What did John Hick say about freedom of action?

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Freewill is a valuable part of being a human being and without it we would be like robots always choosing the good. God does not prevent evil because it would interfere with free will

6
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What does John Hick say about freedom of understanding?

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Epistemic Distance: God’s existence is not obvious to humans in order to allow free will. God does not force himself on humans

7
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What is Freedom to Love?

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Genuine love/relationships most be chosen e.g story of the peasant girl. The King has the power to make the peasant girl love him but he dresses as a pauper so she can fall in love with him at her own accord

8
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What is the counterfactual hypothesis?

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Real virtues such as courage, charity and compassion are only possible in the face of real adversity e.g tsunami

9
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What must perfection develop through?

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Free choice

10
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What did Hick believe in?

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Universal salvation

11
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What did Hick call the afterlife?

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The Eschatological Dimention

12
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What is universal salvation?

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All will go through a process of “deification” (lifting humanity up to the divine)

13
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What did Hick say happens in heaven?

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Humans will complete developing into God’s likeness where suffering is long forgotten. Heaven is a compensation for the suffering on Earth

14
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What does Hick not include?

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Hell