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The article discusses the formulation of theodicy based on the vision of Logos-Light from the prologue to the Fourth Gospel, interpreted in the context of an evolutionary understanding of the origin of the cosmos and biological life. Identifying the cosmic logos/reason with the wisdom of God-Love seems to contradict our knowledge of the turbulent course of natural history, which led to the emergence of a world of animals competing for survival and divided into predators and prey. However, the God revealed in Christ does not impose His will by force, and His Logos operating in creation is compared in the Gospel to a light that shines in the darkness and cannot be extinguished. The article presents three versions of the Christological interpretation of the evolution of the cosmos and nature, in which the key to understanding this process is the paschal mystery with universal horizons and effects, as well as the revelation of the relational and dialogical nature of the Creator‘s existence, from which His dialogical relation to all created beings arises. Two of them, being in fact variants or phases of one perspective on the problem, originate from thinkers of the Russian Orthodox modernism movement from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (W.S. Sołowjow; J.N. Trubieckoj). The third, a century later, comes from a representative of the ecumenical circle of eco-theology, in this case a Roman Catholic theologian from Australia – D. Edwards.
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https://doi.org/10.36124/rt.2025.21