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Descriptive

What if God could not do everything?

On the axis: The problem of evil · the nature of God

One can save God's goodness by taking away his omnipotence: a God who withdraws and limits himself, or before whom evil is a rival principle he does not create.

Philosophers' positions

Jonas

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Justification

After Auschwitz, where his mother was murdered, judges that God's omnipotence, goodness and intelligibility can no longer be held together. He gives up omnipotence: in a "myth" he presents as a hypothesis, God divested himself of his power in creating the world so as to let it be; he suffers with it and could not intervene, and it is now up to human beings to help him.

The Concept of God after Auschwitz (lecture 1984, publ. 1987)

Anchors: Jonas · Whitehead

leads to: Tonality of reality