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God's Goodness and God's Evil (Hardcover)
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God's Goodness and God's Evil (Hardcover)
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Religious thinkers in the Christian theistic tradition have tried
to resolve the problem of evil-how a wholly good and omnipotent God
could allow there to be evil-by offering a theodicy. This book
considers three traditional theodicies and the objections they have
elicited: Leibniz's best of all possible worlds theodicy, the free
will theodicy, and an Irenaean type of theodicy. It also considers
metatheodicies and limited theodicies. However, this book departs
from traditional religious thinking by presenting and treating
religious approaches to evil that do not confront evil through the
religious problem of evil. Primary among the three religious
approaches to evil that are presented is the approach of Job-like
belief. Such an approach embodies Job's acceptance of evil as what
God has given, expressed in his rhetorical "Shall we receive good
at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" (Job 2.10). The
various elements of Job-like belief that are internally required
for its approach to evil are critically examined, and it is seen
how a Job-like approach to evil neither seeks nor requires a
resolution to the problem of evil. The other two religious
approaches to evil, as opposed to the problem of evil, are the
effort to lessen evil in the world and the practice of forgiveness,
both of which are compatible with each other and with a Job-like
acceptance of evil, with which they can be combined. Also treated
in this book are mystery and God's goodness. Accompanying every
theodicy is mystery (in its religious sense as that which is beyond
human understanding), and the experience of the mystery of God's
goodness shining through the world and through evil is embodied in
Job-like belief.
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