Natural And Cosmic Theodicy
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Author | : John C. Peckham |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 149341576X |
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 | : Jongseock James Shin |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2022-10-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1666734926 |
This book presents a third way to envision the Creatorship of the Triune God who is both compassionate and eschatologically redemptive in providential presence, rather than biasedly gravitating toward the openness of a self-limiting God or God’s all-determining sovereignty. Not only is God in, with, and under creation, God’s kenotic presence invites creatures to participate in the self-giving love of God through both general and special divine action in a top-down-through-bottom-up mode. Creatio continua is God’s own journey of fulfilling the eschatological promise for creation. This redemptive presence of God in creation is a Trinitarian co-protesting against the power of death, sin, and evil, considering the cosmic dimensions of the eschatological hope promised in the resurrection of Jesus. The new creation is the ultimate fulfillment of creaturely freedom and contingency divinely granted in creatio ex nihilo. In arguing this, Shin engages in a comparative and critical study of natural and cosmic theodicy advanced by Catherine Keller, Arthur Peacocke, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Robert Russell.
Author | : Richard Rice |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830880208 |
Suffering is a deeply personal problem. Why is this happening to me? Guiding readers through the seven most significant theodicies, Richard Rice uses theory and personal stories to help each of us form a response to suffering that is both intellectually satisfying and personally authentic.
Author | : Gregory A. Boyd |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2001-10-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780830815500 |
Gregory Boyd seeks to defend his scripturally grounded trinitarian warfare theod-icy with rigorous philosophical reflection and insights from human experience and scientific discovery.
Author | : Harry Lee Poe |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830839542 |
Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that God's interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally by the Bible and the contemporary scientific record. Rather than confirming that the cosmos is closed to the actions of the divine, advancing scientific knowledge seems to indicate that the nature of the universe is actually open to the unique type of divine activity portrayed in the Bible.
Author | : David Bentley Hart |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802866867 |
As news reports of the horrific December 2004 tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof of either God s power or God s nonexistence, asking over and over, How could a good and loving God if such exists allow such suffering? In The Doors of the Sea David Bentley Hart speaks at once to those skeptical of Christian faith and to those who use their Christian faith to rationalize senseless human suffering. He calls both to recognize in the worst catastrophes not the providential will of God but rather the ongoing struggle between the rebellious powers that enslave the world and the God who loves it wholly.
Author | : Niels Henrik Gregersen |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451465408 |
Deeply engaged with both the tradition and the contemporary world, the book leads readers to an understanding of deep incarnation, interpreting this central Christian idea to address the needs of the entire created order, and allows Christology to be relevant and meaningful when responding to the challenges of scientific cosmology and of global religious pluralism.
Author | : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2022-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
"Theodicy" is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz published in 1710, whose optimistic approach to the problem of evil is thought to have inspired Voltaire's "Candide". Much of the work consists of a response to the ideas of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle, with whom Leibniz carried on a debate for many years. The "Theodicy" tries to justify the apparent imperfections of the world by claiming that it is optimal among all possible worlds. It must be the best possible and most balanced world, because it was created by an all powerful and all knowing God, who would not choose to create an imperfect world if a better world could be known to him or possible to exist. In effect, apparent flaws that can be identified in this world must exist in every possible world, because otherwise God would have chosen to create the world that excluded those flaws. Leibniz distinguishes three forms of evil: moral, physical, and metaphysical. Moral evil is sin, physical evil is pain, and metaphysical evil is limitation. God permits moral and physical evil for the sake of greater goods, and metaphysical evil is unavoidable since any created universe must necessarily fall short of God's absolute perfection.
Author | : John R. Schneider |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2020-03-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108487602 |
This book will be of interest to college faculty and advanced students interested in the relationship between religion and science, particularly at Christian colleges and seminaries. Its value is to offer an innovative Christian theological approach to the daunting problem that Darwinian animal suffering poses to belief in God.
Author | : Bruce Barber |
Publisher | : ATF Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781920691226 |
This collection of essays examine two pressing issues in theology - . One is theodicy, that is a blief that in a just God in the face of evil and suffering in our world. The other is the issue of Eschatology, a belief in the fulfilment of Jesus'; saving mission, experienced as God's healing of humanity afflicted by suffering and evil.