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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... rejected a deity who battled with monsters and killed people for the slightest violation of ritual purity , so the Chronicler rejected a deity who would incite David , his chosen one , to sin . By the year 400 B.C.E. Satan had ...
... rejected a deity who battled with monsters and killed people for the slightest violation of ritual purity , so the Chronicler rejected a deity who would incite David , his chosen one , to sin . By the year 400 B.C.E. Satan had ...
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... rejected Aristotle when his teaching contradicted the Bible . At a time when Christian scholars were trying to fit the devil into their the- odicies , Maimonides simply rejected belief in demons and other tradi- tions he considered ...
... rejected Aristotle when his teaching contradicted the Bible . At a time when Christian scholars were trying to fit the devil into their the- odicies , Maimonides simply rejected belief in demons and other tradi- tions he considered ...
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... reject such knowledge , but believers could easily demon- strate that several great philosophers had rejected strict empiricism . Many Christians of the Enlightenment era accepted that faith was something interior , something which ...
... reject such knowledge , but believers could easily demon- strate that several great philosophers had rejected strict empiricism . Many Christians of the Enlightenment era accepted that faith was something interior , something which ...
Inhalt
Some Perspectives on Evil | 1 |
Israel and Evil | 8 |
The New Adam | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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