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Author : Stephen T. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Encountering Evil written by Stephen T. Davis and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Religion categories.
Eight prominent philosophers and theologians confront the problems posed by natural and human evil for theistic belief. Each thinker sets out his or her theodicy and its connections to current social and philosophical debates. The other contributors then offer critiques of each theodicy, to which its author subsequently responds. The result is a valuable introduction to philosophical and theological perspectives on contemporary evil and to the nature of discourse in the philosophy of religion.
Overcoming Evil
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Author : Cindy Shell
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Release Date : 2010-06
Overcoming Evil written by Cindy Shell and has been published by Tate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A 3:30 a.m. phone call is enough to make anyone's heart stop and blood run cold. However, Cindy Shell was not overly concerned when her father called in the middle of the night, asking her to check on her mother, who left him a garbled message an hour before and then didn't answer the phone. She knew there must be a rational explanation, so she unhurriedly drove the seven minutes to her parents' home to make sure everything was okay. But everything was not okay. Cindy's beloved mother, her best friend, Shirley Shell, was the victim of a burglary gone awry, and even worse, murder. One can never truly prepare for the aftermath of dealing with a tragedy such as this, one that can easily destroy faith and families. In Overcoming Evil, Cindy shares how belief in God's mercy and his presence in her life carried her through this difficult time and ultimately led her to forgive her mother's killer. Take this journey of faith with Cindy as she realizes that Overcoming Evil is made possible only through the grace of the Lord.
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Author : Stephen T. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 1981
Encountering Evil written by Stephen T. Davis and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Philosophy categories.
Eight prominent philosophers and theologians confront the problems posed by natural and human evil for theistic belief. Each thinker sets out his or her theodicy and its connections to current social and philosophical debates. Other contributors then offer critiques of each theodicy, to which its author subsequently responds.
Encountering Evil
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Author : Gwenn Davis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1981-07-01
Encountering Evil written by Gwenn Davis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-07-01 with Religion categories.
Concerned with the serious intellectual and moral questions that evil presents to religious believers. Each essay is given a critique by the other contributors: John Roth, John Hick, David Griffen, Frederick Sontag, and Stephen Davis.
God S Goodness And God S Evil
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Author : James Kellenberger
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-06-16
God S Goodness And God S Evil written by James Kellenberger and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-16 with Philosophy categories.
Religious thinkers in the Christian theistic tradition have tried to resolve the problem of evil—how a wholly good and omnipotent God could allow there to be evil—by offering a theodicy. This book considers three traditional theodicies and the objections they have elicited: Leibniz’s best of all possible worlds theodicy, the free will theodicy, and an Irenaean type of theodicy. It also considers metatheodicies and limited theodicies. However, this book departs from traditional religious thinking by presenting and treating religious approaches to evil that do not confront evil through the religious problem of evil. Primary among the three religious approaches to evil that are presented is the approach of Job-like belief. Such an approach embodies Job’s acceptance of evil as what God has given, expressed in his rhetorical “Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” (Job 2.10). The various elements of Job-like belief that are internally required for its approach to evil are critically examined, and it is seen how a Job-like approach to evil neither seeks nor requires a resolution to the problem of evil. The other two religious approaches to evil, as opposed to the problem of evil, are the effort to lessen evil in the world and the practice of forgiveness, both of which are compatible with each other and with a Job-like acceptance of evil, with which they can be combined. Also treated in this book are mystery and God’s goodness. Accompanying every theodicy is mystery (in its religious sense as that which is beyond human understanding), and the experience of the mystery of God’s goodness shining through the world and through evil is embodied in Job-like belief.
Divine Power And Evil
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Author : Kenneth K. Pak
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-06
Divine Power And Evil written by Kenneth K. Pak and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-06 with Religion categories.
Evil perplexes us all and threatens to undermine the meaningfulness of our existence. How can we reconcile the reality of evil with the notion of a God who is perfectly good and powerful? Process theodicy, whose foremost proponent is David Griffin, suggests one answer: because every being possesses its own power of self-determination in order for God to attain the divine aim of higher goodness for the world, God must take the risk of the possibility of evil. Divine Power and Evil responds to Griffin's criticisms against traditional theodicy, assesses the merits of process theodicy, and points out ways in which traditional theism could incorporate a number of Griffin's valuable insights in progressing toward a philosophically and theologically satisfactory theodicy. It provides a new and important contribution to a long-standing debate within philosophy of religion and theology.
Thomas Merton Evil And Why We Suffer
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Author : David E. Orberson
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-06-18
Thomas Merton Evil And Why We Suffer written by David E. Orberson and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-18 with Religion categories.
Thomas Merton is one of the most important spiritual voices of the last century. He has never been more relevant as new generations look to him for guidance in addressing some of life's biggest questions: how can we find God, how should we engage with other faiths, and how can we oppose violence and injustice? Looking carefully, one can find, tucked away in Merton's prodigious writings, his response to another timeless question: Why do we suffer? Why does an all-powerful and all loving God permit evil and suffering? By carefully examining all of Merton's work, we find that he repeatedly confronted this question throughout most of his adult life. Intriguingly, Merton's approach to this question changed dramatically a few years before he died in 1968. An examination of all aspects of his life yields evidence that Merton's immersion in Zen during this time contributed most to that change.
The Problem Of Evil And The Power Of God
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Author : Atle Ottesen Søvik
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-05-23
The Problem Of Evil And The Power Of God written by Atle Ottesen Søvik and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-23 with Religion categories.
This book discusses four different answers to the problem of evil, provided by Richard Swinburne, Keith Ward, David Griffin and Johan Hygen. The author suggests several improvements to these answers and concludes that there is a coherent answer to the problem of evil.
Unravelling Encounters
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Author : Caitlin Janzen
language : en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2015-04-20
Unravelling Encounters written by Caitlin Janzen and has been published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-20 with Social Science categories.
This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of colonialism, white settlement, and racism inform and shape our practices, pedagogies, and understanding of encounters in diverse settings. The contributors draw largely on the work of Sara Ahmed's Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality, each chapter taking up a particular encounter and unravelling the elements that created that meeting in its specific time and space. Sites of encounters included in this volume range from the classroom to social work practice and from literary to media interactions, both within Canada and internationally. Paramount to the discussions is a consideration of how relations of power and legacies of oppression shape the self and others, and draw boundaries between bodies within an encounter. From a social justice perspective, Unravelling Encounters exposes the political conditions that configure our meetings with one another and inquires into what it means to care, to respond, and to imagine oneself as an ethical subject.
Theology And The Problem Of Evil
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Author : Kenneth Surin
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2004-10-29
Theology And The Problem Of Evil written by Kenneth Surin and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-29 with Religion categories.
One of the most profound problems that theologians are called on to address is the presence of evil and suffering in the world, and how this can be reconciled with the assertion of an omnipotent and morally perfect God. This book begins by showing how the problem of evil has been inextricably bound up with the problematic deity created by the philosophical theism of the Enlightenment and perpetuated ever since, demonstrating how contemporary theodicists have failed to perceive the historical and cultural determinants which affect their theorizing. Dr. Surin argues that thinking on the problem of evil consists of two fundamental perspectives. He labels these the theoretical and the practical approaches and examines the work of a number of theologians who typify each. Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, the process theologians, and John Hick exemplify the theoretical approach; Dorothee Soelle, Jurgen Moltmann, and P. T. Forsyth the practical. He uses the views of Dostoevsky's character Ivan Karamazov and the protagonists in Elie Wiesel's writing as a paradigm for evaluating the two approaches, and concludes that only the practical approach has the merit of both rooting itself in the realities of human suffering, and grounding itself in the fundamental rule of what he calls an adequate grammar of salvation, namely that God justifies himself by justifying sinners on the cross. Finally, Dr. Surin explores this grammar of the notion of an incarnate salvation with particular reference to the need for a messianic and practical solidarity with those who are afflicted. This thought-provoking book will serve both as an introduction to those new to the ideas of theodicy, and as a stimulating essay for those dissatisfied with conventional studies of theology and the problem of evil.