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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... heavens and the earth , the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep , while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters . Then God said , ' Let there be light . " " In this economic way , the sixth ...
... heaven for every matter . Pagans had lesser deities for minor concerns ; Israel envisioned God using lesser beings to effect his will on earth . Inevitably , some of the angels ' tasks were nega- tive ones . Second Samuel 24 portrays ...
... heaven establishes the folkloric nature of the tale . By the time Job was written , the Jewish understanding of God had moved beyond the stage where he had to accept Satan's challenge . All God really had to do was tell Satan that he ...
... heaven and became lesser gods on earth . The philosopher Plato tells how his teacher Socrates had a demon who sometimes inspired him . But just before the Greeks arrived in the Near East , the word had come to mean a minor evil spirit ...
... heaven . I Enoch expands upon this episode , identifies the sons of God with wicked angels , and claims that this group , led by an angel named Semyaza , taught humans on earth all sorts of wickedness , such as astrol- ogy and ...
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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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