Evil and the Problem of Jesus

Evil and the Problem of Jesus
Author: Gary Commins
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2023-02-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666793930

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Evil and the Problem of Jesus approaches age-old questions about God's relationship with evil (theodicy) from an entirely fresh angle. Rather than tweaking airy abstractions, it makes Jesus' interactions with evil our primary source for thinking about theodicy. This Christ-centered approach reveals the failure of traditional theodicy to be intellectually convincing or spiritually satisfying. Unlike that fossilized intellectual heritage, Christodicy (evil-and-Jesus) provides original insights into divine power, presence, and love that help us reengage the God Jesus reveals and the evil Jesus challenges. Presenting Jesus as a model for how to be fully human, it crafts new ways to envision our own multidimensional relationships with God and with evil. Written with both breadth and focus, the book includes pastoral experiences of tragedy, suffering, and evil; retraces philosophical, multifaith, and biblical insights; and explores the ways the Gospels describe Jesus' complex interactions with evil. Evil and the Problem of Jesus asks pointed questions and offers thoughtful conceptual frameworks to help people live more faithfully, compassionately, wisely, and justly in response to the evils around us, among us, and within us.

Give Me an Answer

Give Me an Answer
Author: Cliffe Knechtle
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1986-03-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780877845690

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Cliffe Knechtle offers clear, reasoned and compassionate responses to the tough questions skeptics ask.

Evil and the Justice of God

Evil and the Justice of God
Author: N. T. Wright
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-03-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 083083415X

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N.T. Wright explores all aspects of evil and how it presents itself in society today. Fully grounded in the story of the Old and New Testaments, this presentation is provocative and hopeful; a fascinating analysis of and response to the fundamental question of evil and justice that faces believers.

If God, Why Evil?

If God, Why Evil?
Author: Norman L. Geisler
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441214658

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Bestselling author and apologist takes on one of the most difficult questions Christians face. How can an omnipotent, loving God preside over a world filled with evil and suffering? The author's approach is concise, systematic, and clearly communicated, just what Geisler fans have grown to expect. In addition to relying on time-tested solutions to the problem of evil, the author also presents a compelling new way to think about this puzzle.

God's Problem

God's Problem
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0061744409

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One Bible, Many Answers In God's Problem, the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus challenges the contradictory biblical explanations for why an all-powerful God allows us to suffer.

Reasonable Faith

Reasonable Faith
Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433501155

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This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

The Problem of Evil

The Problem of Evil
Author: Marilyn McCord Adams
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1990
Genre: Good and evil
ISBN: 0198248660

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This collection of important writings fills the need for an anthology that adequately represents recent work on the problem of evil. This is perhaps one of the most discussed topics in the philosophy of religion, and is of perennial interest to philosophers and theologians.

Satan and the Problem of Evil

Satan and the Problem of Evil
Author: Gregory A. Boyd
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2001-10-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830815500

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Gregory Boyd seeks to defend his scripturally grounded trinitarian warfare theod-icy with rigorous philosophical reflection and insights from human experience and scientific discovery.

Disappointment with God

Disappointment with God
Author: Philip Yancey
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1997
Genre: Faith
ISBN: 031021436X

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No part of the Bible goes unstudied in this book's search for God's hidden nature.

Defending God

Defending God
Author: James L. Crenshaw
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2005-04-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198032080

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In the ancient Near East, when the gods detected gross impropriety in their ranks, they subjected their own to trial. When mortals suspect their gods of wrongdoing, do they have the right to put them on trial? What lies behind the human endeavor to impose moral standards of behavior on the gods? Is this effort an act of arrogance, as Kant suggested, or a means of keeping theological discourse honest? It is this question James Crenshaw seeks to address in this wide-ranging study of ancient theodicies. Crenshaw has been writing about and pondering the issue of theodicy - the human effort to justify the ways of the gods or God - for many years. In this volume he presents a synthesis of his ideas on this perennially thorny issue. The result sheds new light on the history of the human struggle with this intractable problem.