Wrestling with God and with evil : philosophical reflections /

Wrestling with God and with evil : philosophical reflections /

The fact of evil continues to raises questions - questions about the relationship between God and evil but also questions about human involvement in it. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is now time to see the existence of evil not just as a problem for belief in God; it is a problem...

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Other Authors: Vroom, H. M., 1945-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.

Series: Currents of Encounter 31.
Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938.

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Theodicy.
Good and evil > Religious aspects.

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Call Number: BT160 .W74 2007eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Hendrik M. Vroom
  • On Tragic Wisdom /
  • David Tracy
  • The Void: Simone Weil's Naming of Evil /
  • Lissa McCullough
  • "The Community unto Death": Reflections on Contemporary Spirituality, Capitalism and State-Sanctioned Mass Death /
  • Joseph W.H. Lough
  • Coping with Evil: Challenging the Western Christian Approach /
  • Marisa Strizzi
  • The Pursuit of Happiness, the Production of Evil and the New Christianity /
  • Paul R. Fries
  • Radical Evil, Autonomy and the Problem of Formalism: Where Does Kant Leave Us? /
  • Tom Jacobs
  • On Evil: An Immanent Critique /
  • Tinneke Beeckman
  • Spirituality and the Problem of Evil: The Challenge of the Philosophy of Jean Nabert /
  • Theo L. Hettema
  • Why Are We Inclined to Do Evil?: On the Anthropological Roots of Evil /
  • Hendrik M. Vroom
  • Is God Violent?: On Violence and Religion /
  • Wessel Stoker
  • Reasons for Having No Reason to Defend God: Kant, Kierkegaard, Levinas and their Alternatives to Theodicy /
  • Claudia Welz
  • Religion as an Aid for Coping with Evil?: Confronting the Coping Thesis with Barth's Reflections on Nothingness /
  • Petruschka Schaafsma
  • Distortion, Dishonesty and the Problem of Evil /
  • Beverley Clack
  • "Divine Absence Itself Becomes a Mode of Divine Presence": Evil and Suffering in the Christian Feminist Thinking of Elizabeth A. Johnson /
  • Aurica Nutt
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects
  • Contributors to this Volume.