ABSTRACT
This chapter anticipates the criticisms that directly relate to the potential success of the projects goals. It aims to bring contemporary atrocity paradigm scholarship into dialogue with theism through the unique theodical discourse found in the rich philosophical writing of early modern women. The chapter discusses the wide range of reasons scholars from across the disciplines could have for thinking the book falls short. It responds to other predictable minor criticisms: that it is anachronistic to discuss standpoint or atrocity in the early modern period; that these scholars are not really philosophers or doing serious philosophy or doing theodicy. It is a philosophical discovery of import on its own if these women are actually making contributions to theodicy. The chapter embraces only the most agreed-upon tenets of standpoint theory in relation to narrative theodicy that remains consistent with the analytic standpoints commitment to objective knowledge: that some aspects of experiential knowledge depend on a situated knower.
