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God, Evil, and Redeeming Good

Author : Paul A. Macdonald
Publisher : Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
ISBN 13 : 9781032288598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book God, Evil, and Redeeming Good written by Paul A. Macdonald and published by Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original contribution to debates about the problem of evil and the existence of God. It develops a Thomistic, Christian theodicy, the aim of which is to help us better understand not only why God allows evil, but also how God works to redeem it. In the author's view, the existence of evil does not generate any intellectual problem that theists must address or solve to vindicate God or the rationality of theism. This is because acknowledging the existence of evil rationally leads us to acknowledge the existence of God. However, understanding how these two facts are compatible still requires addressing weighty, wide-ranging questions concerning God and evil. The author draws on diverse elements of Aquinas's philosophy and theology to build an argument that evil only exists within God's world because God has created and continues to sustain so much good. Moreover, God can and does bring good out of all evil, both cosmically and within the context of our own, individual lives. In making this argument, the author engages with contemporary work on the problem of evil from analytic philosophy of religion and theology. Additionally, he addresses a broad range of topics and doctrines within Thomistic and Christian thought, including God, creation, providence, original sin, redemption, heaven and hell, and the theological virtues. God, Evil, and Redeeming Good is an essential resource for scholars and students interested in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

God, Evil, and Redeeming Good

Author : Paul A. Macdonald Jr.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000831221
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book God, Evil, and Redeeming Good written by Paul A. Macdonald Jr. and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original contribution to debates about the problem of evil and the existence of God. It develops a Thomistic, Christian theodicy, the aim of which is to help us better understand not only why God allows evil, but also how God works to redeem it. In the author’s view, the existence of evil does not generate any intellectual problem that theists must address or solve to vindicate God or the rationality of theism. This is because acknowledging the existence of evil rationally leads us to acknowledge the existence of God. However, understanding how these two facts are compatible still requires addressing weighty, wide-ranging questions concerning God and evil. The author draws on diverse elements of Aquinas’s philosophy and theology to build an argument that evil only exists within God’s world because God has created and continues to sustain so much good. Moreover, God can and does bring good out of all evil, both cosmically and within the context of our own, individual lives. In making this argument, the author engages with contemporary work on the problem of evil from analytic philosophy of religion and theology. Additionally, he addresses a broad range of topics and doctrines within Thomistic and Christian thought, including God, creation, providence, original sin, redemption, heaven and hell, and the theological virtues. God, Evil, and Redeeming Good is an essential resource for scholars and students interested in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

The Redeemed Good Defense

Author : Anthony MacPherson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666709824
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book The Redeemed Good Defense written by Anthony MacPherson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Why God?” Everyday this question is uttered in sorrow, bewilderment, or anger. This cry is the problem of suffering. It is also known as the problem of evil. It asks why a good, all-powerful God allows evil and pain. Theodicy is the name of the theological responses that seek to defend God against charges of unfairness. Traditional theodicies have been accused of intensifying the problem by claiming that God is justified in allowing evil because he uses it to bring about a greater good. This greater-good approach has been criticized in more recent times. It seems to uncomfortably align God and evil too closely together. Does God need evil in order to bring good? This study explores an alternative stream of theodicy found in the idea of cosmic warfare. In this theodicy God fights evil in its moral, physical, spiritual, and supernatural forms. This book explores the world of theodicy and its cosmic warfare forms. It navigates the theological and ethical minefields involved. Building on the idea that God is in the midst of a great cosmic controversy, it seeks to further the conversation and articulates a new alternative “redeemed good defense.”

Where Was God: Evil, Theodicy, and Modern Science

Author :
Publisher : Gary Stilwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Was God: Evil, Theodicy, and Modern Science written by and published by Gary Stilwell. This book was released on with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evil and the God of Love

Author : J. Hick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230283969
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Evil and the God of Love written by J. Hick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly became recognized as a modern theological classic, widely viewed as the most important work on the problem of evil to appear in English for more than a generation. Including a foreword by Marilyn McCord Adams, this reissue also contains a new preface by the author.

God's Goodness and God's Evil

Author : James Kellenberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781498547512
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book God's Goodness and God's Evil written by James Kellenberger and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the relationship between God and the world's evil. It proposes a religious, Job-like approach to evil that does not approach evil through the problem of evil and accepts that both good and evil are given by God.

Classical Theism

Author : Jonathan Fuqua
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000836932
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Classical Theism written by Jonathan Fuqua and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a contemporary account of classical theism. It features 17 original essays from leading scholars that advance the discussion of classical theism in new and interesting directions. It’s safe to say that classical theism—the view that God is simple, omniscient, and the greatest possible being—is no longer the assumed view in analytic philosophy of religion. It is often dismissed as being rooted in outdated metaphysical systems of the sort advanced by ancient and medieval philosophers. The main purpose of this volume is twofold: to provide a contemporary account of what classical theism is and to advance the scholarly discussion about classical theism. In Section I, the contributors offer a clear and cutting-edge account of the nature and existence of the God and the historical and theological foundations of classical theism. Section II contains chapters on a variety of topics, such as whether classical theism’s doctrine of simplicity needs revision, whether simplicity is compatible with the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, and whether the hypothesis of a multiplicity of divine ideas is consistent with divine simplicity, among others. Classical Theism will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the philosophy of religion who are interested in the nature of God. Chapters 2 and 6 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs

Author : Hans Van Eyghen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000868265
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs written by Hans Van Eyghen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses whether belief in spirits is epistemically justified. It presents two arguments in support of the existence of spirits and arguments that experiences of various sorts (perceptions, mediumship, possession and animistic experiences) can lend justification to spirit-beliefs. Most work in philosophy of religion exclusively deals with the existence of God or the epistemic status of belief in God. Spirit beliefs are often regarded as aberrations, and the falsity of such beliefs is often assumed. This book argues that various beliefs concerning spirits can be regarded as justified when they are rooted in experiences that are not defeated. It argues that spirit-beliefs are not defeated by recent theories put forth by neuroscientists, cognitive scientists or evolutionary biologists. Additional arguments are made that traditional theistic belief is epistemically linked to spirit beliefs and that unusual events can be explained in terms of spirit-activity. The book draws on theistic arguments, phenomenal conservatism and defenses of religious experiences to argue for the justification of spirit-beliefs. The arguments draw on examples from various religious traditions ranging from Christianity and Islam to Haitian Vodou and Tibetan Bon. The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in philosophy of religion, religious epistemology, ethnography and cognitive neuroscience.

Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought

Author : Benedikt Paul Göcke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000932109
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought written by Benedikt Paul Göcke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long, scholars interested in panentheism have focused almost exclusively on Western approaches to the issue. This book offers the first in-depth study of a wide range of Indian paradigms of panentheism, both ancient and modern, and brings these paradigms into creative and constructive dialogue with Western traditions. This volume features original essays written by leading international scholars. The volume discusses a broad range of Indian panentheistic traditions, including the Upaniṣads, Bhedābheda Vedānta, Rāmānuja’s Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta, Yogācāra Buddhism, and the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda tradition. The chapters connect these traditions with Western panentheistic conceptions developed by thinkers such as Spinoza, Berkeley, Schopenhauer, Krause, Royce, Tononi and Koch, and Western process philosophers. Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of religion, Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy, and comparative religion.

Redeeming Nietzsche

Author : Giles Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134483104
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Redeeming Nietzsche written by Giles Fraser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for having declared the death of God, Nietzsche was a thinker thoroughly absorbed in the Christian tradition in which he was born and raised. Yet while the atheist Nietzsche is well known, the pious Nietzsche is seldom recognized and rarely understood. Redeeming Nietzsche examines the residual theologian in the most vociferous of atheists. Giles Fraser demonstrates that although Nietzsche rejected God, he remained obsessed with the question of human salvation. Examining his accounts of art, truth, morality and eternity, Nietzsche's thought is revealed to be

The Triumph of God Over Evil

Author : William Hasker
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830828044
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of God Over Evil written by William Hasker and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2008-03-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted philosopher William Hasker explores a full range of questions concerning the problem of evil. Hasker forges constructive answers in some depth showing why the evil in the world does not provide evidence of a moral fault in God, the world's creator and governor.

The Agnostic Inquirer

Author : Sandra Menssen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802803946
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis The Agnostic Inquirer by : Sandra Menssen

Download or read book The Agnostic Inquirer written by Sandra Menssen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling achievement....I cannot overemphasize how original and groundbreaking this work is, or recommend this book too highly. The argument throughout is clear, succinct, and rigorous. It represents the highest standards of analytical philosophy. All future work, if it is to be up to speed, will have to deal with what Menssen and Sullivan have done.

Redeeming Marketplace Medicine

Author : Abigail Rian Evans
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556358415
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Book Synopsis Redeeming Marketplace Medicine by : Abigail Rian Evans

Download or read book Redeeming Marketplace Medicine written by Abigail Rian Evans and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asserting what most Americans already suspect -- that corporate-based managed care places profits over patient care -- theologian Abigail Rian Evans points out that medical experts have reduced health care to medical treatment under arrangements with health insurance plans and HMOs. Her reasoned, practical alternative engages Christian theology, proposing a much broader concept of health care. An important contribution to a critical discussion.

God’S Redeeming Plan

Author : William Edward Dewberry
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449719848
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book God’S Redeeming Plan written by William Edward Dewberry and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the hope of mankind for a more satisfying and meaningful life based on the knowledge of God and Christ. A better understanding of the Word of God results in producing faith, hope, and love in the hearts of readers and believers. The complete Word of God revealed in the Bible is believed and practiced by millions. This book is written in language that is easy to understand and reveals the mystery of salvation for everyone. Author William Edward Dewberry hopes to give a comprehensible view of Gods plan that will lead readers to examine the Holy Scriptures more thoroughly and become better acquainted with the plan of God that is able to lead a person to salvation through their faith in Christ. The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart [that is, the word of faith that we preach] that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10) This book explains the redeeming plan of God, the great benefits of believing, and the dire consequences of ignoring the Creator and His Son, Jesus Christ. It explains Gods plan from the day of creation to the day that the earth and everything in it will be destroyed by extreme heat. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness. (2nd Peter 3:10-11)

Liberal Learning and the Great Christian Traditions

Author : Gregory W. Jenkins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 162564373X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Liberal Learning and the Great Christian Traditions written by Gregory W. Jenkins and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an aspect of civic humanism, the liberal arts comprehended the skills necessary to realize the common good of free citizens within a free society, the mental habits basic to citizenship as preached and taught in the classical, medieval, and Renaissance worlds. The liberal arts formed people with the virtues proper to civic life. The Church has never been quiet about these issues. In every age Christians have addressed themselves to what the human animal is that such a being can be trained in civic virtue, and how this can best be done, why Christians should care, and what Faith has to say on such matters as profane learning. This book's essays explore how the various Christian Traditions have taken up the question of liberal learning by setting it within the context of their own peculiar idioms and histories.

Systems of Evil

Author : Eric Odell-Hein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781683144175
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Systems of Evil written by Eric Odell-Hein and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can a Christian offer a unique, attractive path for understanding and defeating evil among the world religions? "It is my conviction that for Christians to effectively communicate with non-Christians regarding the supremacy of God over evil and suffering, they must be well informed about the relationship between Christian theodicy and the explanations for evil and suffering found in other belief systems." In Systems of Evil, Dr. Odell-Hein provides an unbiased examination of how each of the major religions in the world deals with the problem of evil. The study first looks at the concept of evil in Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Next it develops a framework for comparing the systems to each other based strictly on unbiased data and native sources. Finally, the Christian system of evil is examined to discover the key ministry points for explaining that it is a sufficient explanation for the problem of evil while being uniquely attractive to prospective adherents.

Redemptive Divorce

Author : Mark Gaither
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 141857399X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Redemptive Divorce written by Mark Gaither and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graceful, biblical way to reclaim sanity for the home and dignity for the suffering spouse in a dysfunctional or dangerous marriage. Thousands of conscientious believers wanting to honor the sacred vows they took before God suffer in dysfunctional, even dangerous marriages. Each and every day they must choose between the lesser of two evils: divorce without sound biblical support or a life of perpetual, unrelenting misery. Somewhere between the secular disregard for the commands of Christ and the sacred unwillingness to deal with real problems of people, there is a way. The redemptive divorce process is designed to honor the sacredness of the union while offering practical relief for the suffering partner and tough love for the offending spouse. In some cases, it might even be the catalyst for the restoration and rebuilding of the marriage. Practical, provocative, and utterly unique, Redemptive Divorce includes a helpful guide with worksheets for implementation.