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The Prince of This World (Paperback)
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The Prince of This World (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 460
You Save R41 (7%)
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The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the
problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible
propositions: God is all-good, God is all-powerful, and evil
happens. The Prince of This World traces the story of one of the
most influential attempts to square this circle: the offloading of
responsibility for evil onto one of God's rebellious creatures. In
this striking reexamination, the devil's story is bitterly ironic,
full of tragic reversals. He emerges as a theological symbol who
helps oppressed communities cope with the trauma of unjust
persecution, torture, and death at the hands of political
authorities and eventually becomes a vehicle to justify oppression
at the hands of Christian rulers. And he evolves alongside the
biblical God, who at first presents himself as the liberator of the
oppressed but ends up a cruel ruler who delights in the infliction
of suffering on his friends and enemies alike. In other words, this
is the story of how God becomes the devil-a devil who remains with
us in our ostensibly secular age.
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