Theodicy Beyond The Death Of God

Author : Andrew Shanks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367890429

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Theodicy Beyond the Death of 'God' by Andrew Shanks Pdf

True theodicy is partly a theoretical corrective to evangelistic impatience: discounting the distortions arising from over-eager salesmanship. And partly it is a work of poetic intensification, dedicated to faith's necessary struggle against resentment. This book contains a systematic survey of the classic theoretical-corrective theodicy tradition initiated, in the early Seventeenth Century, by Jakob Böhme. Two centuries later, Böhme's lyrical thought is translated into rigorous philosophical terms by Schelling; and is, then, further, set in context by Hegel's doctrine of providence at work in world history. The old 'God' of mere evangelistic impatience is, as Hegel sees things, 'dead'. And so theodicy is liberated, to play its proper role: illustrated here with particular reference to the book of Job, the post-Holocaust poetry of Nelly Sachs, and the thought of Simone Weil. A boldly polemical study, this book is a bid to re-ignite debate on the whole topic of theodicy. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars in religious studies, theology and philosophy.

Author : Andrew Shanks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351607209

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Theodicy Beyond the Death of 'God' by Andrew Shanks Pdf

True theodicy is partly a theoretical corrective to evangelistic impatience: discounting the distortions arising from over-eager salesmanship. And partly it is a work of poetic intensification, dedicated to faith’s necessary struggle against resentment. This book contains a systematic survey of the classic theoretical-corrective theodicy tradition initiated, in the early Seventeenth Century, by Jakob Böhme. Two centuries later, Böhme’s lyrical thought is translated into rigorous philosophical terms by Schelling; and is, then, further, set in context by Hegel’s doctrine of providence at work in world history. The old ‘God’ of mere evangelistic impatience is, as Hegel sees things, ‘dead’. And so theodicy is liberated, to play its proper role: illustrated here with particular reference to the book of Job, the post-Holocaust poetry of Nelly Sachs, and the thought of Simone Weil. A boldly polemical study, this book is a bid to re-ignite debate on the whole topic of theodicy. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars in religious studies, theology and philosophy.

Author : Richard W. Kropf
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725211445

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Evil and Evolution: A Theodicy by Richard W. Kropf Pdf

First published in 1984 and recently revised and updated, this book deals with the problem of evil, or theodicy (God's justice). It contends that the process of evolution, particularly as it bears on the emergence of free will, rather than being a barrier to faith, gives us the key to understanding its greatest obstacle - the existence of so much suffering in the world. It further advances the still contested claim that God is truly our fellow sufferer in our struggle to overcome evil in all of its many forms.

Author : Robert R. Williams
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191631061

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Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God by Robert R. Williams Pdf

Hegel and Nietzsche are two of the most important figures in philosophy and religion. Robert R. Williams challenges the view that they are mutually exclusive. He identifies four areas of convergence. First, Hegel and Nietzsche express and define modern interest in tragedy as a philosophical topic. Each seeks to correct the traditional philosophical and theological suppression of a tragic view of existence. This suppression of the tragic is required by the moral vision of the world, both in the tradition and in Kant's practical philosophy and its postulates. For both Hegel and Nietzsche, the moral vision of the world is a projection of spurious, life-negating values that Nietzsche calls the ascetic ideal, and that Hegel identifies as the spurious infinite. The moral God is the enforcer of morality. Second, while acknowledging a tragic dimension of existence, Hegel and Nietzsche nevertheless affirm that existence is good in spite of suffering. Both affirm a vision of human freedom as open to otherness and requiring recognition and community. Struggle and contestation have affirmative significance for both. Third, while the moral God is dead, this does not put an end to the God-question. Theology must incorporate the death of God as its own theme. The union of God and death expressing divine love is for Hegel the basic speculative intuition. This implies a dipolar, panentheistic concept of a tragic, suffering God, who risks, loves, and reconciles. Fourth, Williams argues that both Hegel and Nietzsche pursue theodicy, not as a justification of the moral God, but rather as a question of the meaningfulness and goodness of existence despite nihilism and despite tragic conflict and suffering. The inseparability of divine love and anguish means that reconciliation is no conflict-free harmony, but includes a paradoxical tragic dissonance: reconciliation is a disquieted bliss in disaster.

Author : John C. Peckham
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493415762

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Theodicy of Love by John C. Peckham Pdf

If God is all powerful and entirely good and loving, why is there so much evil in the world? Based on a close canonical reading of Scripture, this book offers a new approach to the challenge of reconciling the Christian confession of a loving God with the realities of suffering and evil. John Peckham offers a constructive proposal for a theodicy of love that upholds both the sovereignty of God and human freedom, showing that Scripture points toward a framework for thinking about God's love in relation to the world.

Author : John Swinton
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334056409

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Raging with Compassion by John Swinton Pdf

In "Raging with Compassion", Michael Ramsey prize-winning author John Swinton argues for a practical theodicy, one embodied in the life and practices of the Christian community. This practicality does not seek to provide an explanation for the existence of evil, but rather presents ways in which evil and suffering can be resisted and transformed. This, he insists, will enable Christians to live faithfully with unanswered questions as they await God's redemption of the whole creation. Swinton explores essential practices of redemption - lament, forgiveness, thoughtfulness, hospitality, and friendship - drawing out their implications for the faithful resistance of evil. Enhanced by case studies from current events and by Swinton's own experience as a pastor and mental health nurse, "Raging with Compassion" seeks to inspire fresh Christian responses and modes of practice in our broken, fallen world.

Author : Terrence W. Tilley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579104306

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The Evils of Theodicy by Terrence W. Tilley Pdf

The thesis of this book is straightforward: Tilley argues that theodicy as a discourse practice creates evils while theodicists ignore or distort classic texts in the Christian tradition, unwittingly efface genuine evils in their attempts to justify God, and silence the voice of the suffering and the oppressed by writing them out of the theological picture. The result is often a theological legitimation of intolerable social evils.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Gary Stilwell
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Where Was God: Evil, Theodicy, and Modern Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Antii Laato,Johannes de Moor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047402626

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Theodicy in the World of the Bible by Antii Laato,Johannes de Moor Pdf

Is it justice when deities allow righteous human beings to suffer? This question has occupied the minds of theologians and philosophers for many centuries and is still hotly disputed. All kinds of argument have been developed to exonerate the 'good God' of any guilt in this respect. Since Leibniz it has become customary to describe such attempts as 'theodicy', the justification of God. In modern philosophical debate this use of 'theodicy' has been questioned. However, this volume shows that it is still a workable term for a concept that originated much earlier than is commonly realised. Experts from many disciplines follow the emergence of the theodicy problem from ancient Near Eastern texts of the second millennium BCE through biblical literature, from both Old and New Testament, intertestamental writings including Qumran, Philo Judaeus and rabbinic Judaism.

Author : Tyron Inbody
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664257119

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The Transforming God by Tyron Inbody Pdf

This book offers a bold new approach to the theological interpretation of human suffering. Beginning with a description of suffering and evil as religious problems, Inbody moves to a critique of the all-loving and omnipotent deity in classical theism, concluding with a radical interpretation of the Christian God as a vulnerable, transforming God.

Author : Jacob H. Friesenhahn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317013037

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The Trinity and Theodicy by Jacob H. Friesenhahn Pdf

Why does God permit the great suffering and evil that we see in our world? This basic question of human existence receives a fresh answer in this book as the mystery of evil is explored in the context of the mystery of the Trinity. God's permission of evil and the way in which suffering can lead human persons into the life of the Trinity are discussed in dialogue with the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In the light of Balthasar's model of the Trinity as divine self-giving love, we gain a profound grasp of the nature of suffering in human life by placing our suffering in the context of the divine life of the Triune God.

Author : Loren Meierding
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781475903515

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God, Relationships, and Evil by Loren Meierding Pdf

As an undergraduate the author was influenced strongly by Bertrand Russell’s rejection of Christianity due to the amount of evil in the world. After years of reading and reflecting on this topic, this book was written in the hope of providing better insight on this issue. The book’s first part offers an analysis of the two primary historical approaches to theodicy—the free-will theodicy originated by Augustine and the “soul-making” or character development theodicy elaborated by John Hick. But the great value of human free will and character development does not seem adequately to justify all the evil we perceive. The second part shows why development of relationships among God and human beings requires considerable evil. Important non-relationship oriented explanations are taken into account. Justifications for permitting horrific evils including holocausts and world wars are given. The final part provides an analysis of the argument from evil including forms of the argument which have appeared in recent years in philosophical journals. Although evidence restricted to some evils or evil alone may have some weight, when good is included as well as evil, theists are justified in claiming the evidence supports their position far better than atheism.

Author : Andrew Shanks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567545060

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Hegel and Religious Faith by Andrew Shanks Pdf

This polemical advocacy of Hegel's religious thought. It presents Hegel's religious thought as a living, still urgent challenge for today and confronts the major theological and philosophical objections to Hegel in a fresh way.

Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781616402952

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Theodicy by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Pdf

In this 1710 treatise, Gottfried Liebniz's only book-length work, he applies the idea of philosophical "optimism"-that we live in the best of all possible worlds-to the "problem of evil"-If a benevolent God exists, why do terrible things happen? He explores the possibility that humanity's happiness is not necessarily part of God's plan. Much of Leibniz's thinking in the realm of the sciences flowed from his philosophy-he believed the universe to operate under simple, intelligible, interconnected rules. Understanding how he approached the metaphysical world and humanity's place in it is vital to understanding his contributions to modern science. The impact of the work of German mathematician GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ (1646-1716) on modern science and technology is all but incalculable. His notation for infinitesimal calculus-which he developed independently of Newton-remains in use today, and his invention of binary counting is the basis for modern computing. He was a powerfully influential philosopher as well, and is still considered, alongside Descartes and Spinoza, one of the great 17th-century rationalists.

Author : Nick Trakakis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402051456

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The God Beyond Belief by Nick Trakakis Pdf

This study of Professor William Rowe’s defense of atheism on the basis of evil assesses the literature that has developed in response to Rowe’s work, closely examining two strategies: mystery – the idea that God may have reasons beyond our comprehension for permitting evil; and theodicy - explanations as to why God allows evil to flourish. The book unearths difficulties in both, concluding that the God of theism must be "beyond belief."