The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition: From the Book of Job to Modern GeneticsLiturgical Press, 2002 - 245 Seiten The question of evil presents a profound challenge to humanity--why do we do what we know to be wrong? This is especially a challenge to religious believers. Why doesn't an all-good and omnipotent God step in and put an end to evil? The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition examines how Western thinkers have dealt with the problem of evil, starting in ancient Israel and tracing the question through post-biblical Judaism, Early Christianity (especially in Africa), the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and to the twenty-first century when science has raised new and important issues. Joseph Kelly covers the book of Job, the book of Revelation, Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, Luther, Marlow, Milton, Voltaire, Hume, Mary Shelley, Darwin, Jung, Flannery O'Connor, Karl Rahner, Teilhard de Chardin, and modern geneticists. Chapters are "Some Perspectives on Evil," "Israel and Evil," "The New Adam," "Out of Africa," "The Broken Cosmos," "The Middle Ages," "Decline and Reform of Humanism," "The Devil's Last Stand," "Rationalizing Evil," "The Attack on Christianity," "Dissident Voices," "Human Evil in the Nineteenth Century," "Science, Evil, and Original Sin," "Modern Literary Approaches to Evil," "Some Scientific Theories of Evil," and "Modern Religious Approaches to Evil." Joseph F. Kelly, Ph.D., is professor of religious studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The World of the Early Christians, published by The Liturgical Press. |
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... Jews , Christians , and Muslims . This survey of different types of evil leads to an important and endur- ing theme in the development of the ideas about evil . Western thinkers distinguished between Evil , the inescapable fact that ...
... Jewish influence on their views is to be expected . Yet Jewish influence was much stronger than is often thought . The Garden of Eden myth provided the basis for the Christian view of original sin , while the book of Job remains the ...
... Jewish notion , the cosmic battle between good and evil , had a tremendous effect upon how much of the ancient and ... Jews , this was not the case with the idea of evil . Christians accepted the biblical no- tions first and then fit ...
... Jewish and Christian texts . The most famous Near Eastern myth is the Epic of Gilgamesh . Gil- gamesh reigns as the king of a city - state . In the ancient world , the city represented civilization with walls and markets , rulers and ...
... Jewish leaders to return . From this point onward the Jews lived under foreign domination , first of the Persians , then of the Macedonian Alexander the Great and his successors , until the Maccabees liberated Judah in the second ...
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The Broken Cosmos | 51 |
The Middle Ages | 62 |
Decline and Reform and Humanism | 87 |
The Devils Last Stand | 102 |
Human Evil in the Nineteenth Century | 154 |
Science Evil and Original Sin | 172 |
Modern Literary Approaches to Evil | 188 |
Some Scientific Theories of Evil | 200 |
Modern Religious Approaches to Evil | 213 |
Epilogue | 230 |
A Personal Reflection | 233 |
Select Bibliography | 235 |
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