Creation And The Persistence Of Evil

Author : Jon D. Levenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691029504

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Creation and the Persistence of Evil by Jon D. Levenson Pdf

This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine omnipotence, Jon Levenson defines God's authorship of the world as a consequence of his victory in his struggle with evil. He traces a flexible conception of God to the earliest Hebrew sources, arguing, for example, that Genesis 1 does not describe the banishment of evil but the attempt to contain the menace of evil in the world, a struggle that continues today.

Author : Jon Douglas Levenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:233862703

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Creation and the Persistence of Evil by Jon Douglas Levenson Pdf

Author : Jon Douglas Levenson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300135152

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Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel by Jon Douglas Levenson Pdf

Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique which places the meaning of a text in the middle, framed by a beginning and ending in parallel. To read a ring composition in the modern linear fashion is to misinterpret it, Douglas contends, and today's scholars must reevaluate important antique texts from around the world. Found in the Bible and in writings from as far a field as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Does it perhaps derive from the way the brain works? What is its function in social contexts? The author examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way. She focuses on ring composition in Homer's Iliad, the Bible's book of Numbers, and, for a challenging modern example, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, developing a persuasive argument for reconstruing famous books and rereading neglected ones.

Author : Jon Douglas Levenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691155692

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Inheriting Abraham by Jon Douglas Levenson Pdf

"Levenson provides a masterful reading of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thinking that yielded three different portraits of Abraham. He sets the record straight about the biblical patriarch."---Sidney H. Griffith, author of The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam --Book Jacket.

Author : Greg Schmidt Goering
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004165793

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Wisdom's Root Revealed by Greg Schmidt Goering Pdf

This monograph interprets the theme of election in the book of Sirach. Previous scholarship has often understood Ben Sira s worldview to be dualistic, and has approached the sage's correlation of Wisdom and Torah as either a nationalization of Wisdom or a universalization of Torah. By probing Ben Sira s ideas about election, this book suggests that Ben Sira does not collapse the traditional sapiential dichotomy wisdom/folly into a dualistic worldview, and that his understanding of the relation between Wisdom and Torah proves to be far more subtle than previous interpretations have allowed. The study demonstrates that the concept of election enables a profitable discussion of the relation of Wisdom and Torah in the thought of this pivotal Second Temple sage.

Author : Jon D. Levenson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300065116

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The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son by Jon D. Levenson Pdf

"The near sacrifice and miraculous restoration of a beloved son is a central but largely overlooked theme in both Judaism and Christianity. This book explores how this notion of child sacrifice constitutes an overlooked bond between the two religions."--

Author : Jon D. Levenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691202501

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The Love of God by Jon D. Levenson Pdf

The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism--but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an emotion be commanded? How could one ever fulfill such a requirement? The Love of God places these scholarly and existential questions in a new light. Jon Levenson traces the origins of the concept to the ancient institution of covenant, showing how covenantal love is a matter neither of sentiment nor of dry legalism. The love of God is instead a deeply personal two-way relationship that finds expression in God's mysterious love for the people of Israel, who in turn observe God's laws out of profound gratitude for his acts of deliverance. Levenson explores how this bond has survived episodes in which God's love appears to be painfully absent--as in the brutal persecutions of Talmudic times--and describes the intensely erotic portrayals of the relationship by biblical prophets and rabbinic interpreters of the Song of Songs. He examines the love of God as a spiritual discipline in the Middle Ages as well as efforts by two influential modern Jewish thinkers--Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig--to recover this vital but endangered aspect of their tradition. A breathtaking work of scholarship and spirituality alike that is certain to provoke debate, The Love of God develops fascinating insights into the foundations of religious life in the classical Jewish tradition. (Publisher).

Author : John Sanders
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830878079

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The God Who Risks by John Sanders Pdf

If God is all-knowing and all-powerful, can he in any way be vulnerable to his creation? Can God be in control of anything at all if he is not constantly in control of everything? John Sanders says yes to both of these questions. In The God Who Risks defends his answer with a careful and challenging argument. He first builds his case on an in-depth reading of the Old and New Testaments. Then Sanders probes philosophical, historical and systematic theology for further support. And he completes his defense with considerations drawn from practical theology. The God Who Risks is a profound and often inspiring presentation of "relational theism"--an understanding of providence in which "a personal God enters into genuine give-and-take relations with his creatures." With this book Sanders not only contributes to serious theological discussion but also enlightens pastors and laypersons who struggle with questions about suffering, evil and human free will.

Author : Nicola Hoggard Creegan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199931859

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Animal Suffering and the Problem of Evil by Nicola Hoggard Creegan Pdf

Nicola Hoggard Creegan offers a compelling examination of the problem of evil in the context of animal suffering, disease, and extinction and the violence of the evolutionary process. Using the parable of the wheat and the tares as a hermeneutical lens for understanding the tragedy and beauty of evolutionary history, she shows how evolutionary theory has deconstructed the primary theodicy of historic Christianity-the Adamic fall-while scientific research on animals has increased appreciation of animal sentience and capacity for suffering. Animal Suffering and the Problem of Evil responds to this new theodic challenge. Hoggard Creegan argues that nature can be understood as an interrelated mix of the perfect and the corrupted: the wheat and the tares. At times the good is glimpsed, but never easily or unequivocally. She then argues that humans are not to blame for all evil because so much evil preceded human becoming. Finally, she demonstrates that faith requires a confidence in the visibility of the work of God in nature, regardless of how infinitely subtle and almost hidden it is, affirming that there are ways of perceiving the evolutionary process beyond that "nature is red in tooth and claw."

Author : Michael David Coogan
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0664241840

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Stories from Ancient Canaan by Michael David Coogan Pdf

Contained on fifteen of the cuneiform tables uncovered at the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit are the four major oral Ugartic myths of Aqhat, The Healers, Kirta and Baal. Stories from Ancient Canaan is the first to offer a one-volume translation of all four. This accessible book teaches the principal Canaanite religious literature, and will be useful to students of the history of religion, of the Bible, and of comparative literature.

Author : Kenneth Keathley,Mark F. Rooker
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825429415

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40 Questions About Creation and Evolution by Kenneth Keathley,Mark F. Rooker Pdf

Biblically and scientifically informed answers to pressing questions about the creation-evolution debate. This accessible volume evenly addresses the issues of modern science and the scriptural texts. The conservative evangelical authors are well-informed on contemporary scientific views of the universe and also carefully exegete the biblical texts that pertain to creation. They irenically consider the various angles of the debate and make constructive suggestions to reconcile science and the Bible. Those who are curious about the origins of life and the universe will want to read this book. Seminary students and serious college students will find this information critical, as an understanding of creation is vital to an effective apologetic in sharing the faith.

Author : John C. Holbert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621891383

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Preaching Creation by John C. Holbert Pdf

The human race, along with the animals and plants that make up the creation of God, face a difficult future due to the multiple ways that the ecosystem on which they all depend is currently under stress. Temperatures are rising along with the oceans. Rain forests are falling along with the polar ice caps. Questions of the environment are now front and center in any catalog of concerns. Those who are called to preach need to include in the subjects of their sermons these environmental issues. Our Bible contains significant resources, often overlooked, as bases on which powerful environmental sermons can be preached. This book introduces the subject of preaching and the environment, offering close looks at important biblical passages that address the cosmos of God, and presenting sample sermons founded on those passages. The book calls for preachers both to name the vast problems we face and to offer the hope of the gospel of God to address them.

Author : Jon D. Levenson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062285249

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Sinai and Zion by Jon D. Levenson Pdf

A treasury of religious thought and faith--places the symbolic world of the Bible in its original context.

Author : Eric M. Vail
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630874179

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Creation and Chaos Talk by Eric M. Vail Pdf

Talk about chaos is pervasive. Biblical scholars, theologians, and scientists have been using the word chaos for some time, occasionally mingling ideas across disciplines around the shared word. Quite often, discussions of chaos center on the issues of creation's origin and nature, as well as on God's creative methods and relationship to creation. Eric M. Vail investigates the current uses of the word chaos in those areas. A new way of articulating creation out of nothing is offered as both helpful and appropriate in our current milieu. He suggests where we ought to focus our use of the word chaos in Christian discourse and argues that chaos is more fitting for naming where creation has gone awry rather than for naming that state out of which creation comes to be.

Author : John Reid Noe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0983430365

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The Creation of Evil by John Reid Noe Pdf

The reality of good and evil has become a conundrum of unscriptural notions that have evolved over many years and appeal to most Christians. Therefore, this book re-explores the question of who is responsible for the creation of evil in the first place and its purposes. Of course, some say Satan is responsible. Others say sin. Many cite human free will. A few say pre-creation chaos. Others admit they don't know; it's a mystery. But some say God. Most agree that God allows, permits, and even uses evil in our world. But is He responsible for more than that? Today, all over the world, people are suffering from evil, even horrendous evil. The two traditional and persistent questions are: Why is this so? and Where is God in all this? In this book, you will discover better answers and more scriptural and historical explanations than you've been given before.