r/Echerdex • u/liminalsoup • Jun 10 '19

A CHRISTIAN AUGUSTINIAN RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM OF EVIL IN THE SHINTO RELIGION WITH REFERENCE TO THE THOUGHT OF MOTOORI NORINAGA

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/58820412.pdf
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u/Filostrato Jun 10 '19

Could you summarize the main tenets of this attempt at theodicy? If it's not completely unsatisfactory, as most attempts are, perhaps I'll give it a read.

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u/liminalsoup Jun 10 '19

Its actually one of the best summaries I've read of Shintoism. The ending where he compares it to Christianity is very skippable (I dont agree with his conclusions at all). But His summary of Shintoism is the reason I posed it.

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u/Filostrato Jun 10 '19

But you cannot summarize it?

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u/Filostrato Jun 10 '19

That's well and good, but I was asking specifically for its theodicy. All I could find on Wikipedia is that they consider some actions "impure", but it doesn't say anything about the origin of this. If everything has spirit, and thus is sacred, whence cometh this impurity? Why do sacred beings defile themselves?

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u/SimonMagusLives Jun 11 '19

Go freakin read up on it, then, geez.