The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition: From the Book of Job to Modern GeneticsLiturgical Press, 2002 - 245 Seiten "Evil presents a profound and eternal challenge to humanity--why do we do what we know to be wrong? Why does not an all-good and omnipotent God step in and put an end to evil? [This book] looks at people's efforts to deal with evil, starting with ancient Israel and moving through the great figures of the Western tradition to the twenty-first century"--Back cover. |
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... claimed that the Hebrew Bible contained a lot of nonsense , like a talking snake ( Genesis 3 ) or a talking donkey ( Numbers 22 ) , but , most seriously for them , it told of a spiritual God who created the physi- cal world . This is ...
... claimed that the Hebrew Bible contained a lot of nonsense , like a talking snake ( Genesis 3 ) or a talking donkey ( Numbers 22 ) , but , most seriously for them , it told of a spiritual God who created the physi- cal world . This is ...
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... claimed that we do not know universals , which are thus superfluous ; we actually know only individual persons or things . We abstract from these individ- uals a concept to which we give universal names , such as humanity . This ...
... claimed that we do not know universals , which are thus superfluous ; we actually know only individual persons or things . We abstract from these individ- uals a concept to which we give universal names , such as humanity . This ...
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... claimed to be itself evil . *** The nineteenth century had taken notions of evil a long way . The Ro- mantic and especially the Gothic writers had attacked the Enlighten- ment icon , the scientist , and had claimed that all humans ...
... claimed to be itself evil . *** The nineteenth century had taken notions of evil a long way . The Ro- mantic and especially the Gothic writers had attacked the Enlighten- ment icon , the scientist , and had claimed that all humans ...
Inhalt
Some Perspectives on Evil | 1 |
Israel and Evil | 8 |
The New Adam | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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accept accused Adam and Eve ancient angels apocalyptic Augustine Augustine's Augustinian believed biblical book of Job Cathars Catholic century Christ Christian Church claimed cosmos created creation creature Dante death deists deity demons devil divine earth Enlightenment especially existence faith Faust forces Garden Garden of Eden genes Genesis genetic Gnostics God's Gospels grace Greek heaven Hebrew Bible hell human Hume insisted intellectuals Jesus Jewish Jews knew knowledge Leibniz literally live Luther Medieval Mephistopheles Milton modern monks monster moral myth natural theologians never notion of evil original original sin pagan person philosophes poet portrayed predestination problem of evil psychological question reason recognized rejected religion religious Roman Sade Satan scholars scientist serpent sexual simply sinned social society story suffering teaching theists theme theodicy theology theories of evil thinkers tion traditional turned understanding of evil Voltaire wanted Western witches woman women writers wrote