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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the book's heart lies the title sequence, a profound meditation on a father's dying, the reverberations...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
For a lot of people, the biggest question about God is not, surprisingly enough, whether He exists. Instead, it is about whether God is truly good. Dinesh D'Souza, in his debates with leading atheists, quickly realized that many of those debates revolved around the question of evil in this world-how God could create a world that allowed such suffering and evil. In What's So Great about God, Dinesh D'Souza takes these questions head-on: Does God act...
Series
Oklahoma series in classical culture volume 23
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Vergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and patriarchy? Is its world view comic or tragic? Many studies of the poem have focused primarily on selected books. The approach here is comprehensive. An introduction...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
If we are honest, we have to admit that there are many things we don't understand about God, especially in the face of terrible suffering and evil. Chris Wright offers reflections and encouragement from the Scriptures, so that those who are troubled by these tough questions can still sustain their faith. --from publisher description.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Renowned Bible scholar Bart Ehrman discusses the contradictory explanations for suffering put forth by various biblical writers and invites all people of faith--or no faith--to confront their deepest questions about how God engages the world and each of us.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"As a young theology student, Harold Kushner puzzled over the Book of Job. As a small-town rabbi he counseled other people through pain and grief. But not until he learned that his three-year-old son, Aaron, would die in his early teens of a rare disease did he confront one of life's most difficult questions: Where do we find the resources to cope when tragedy strikes?....Since its original publication in 1981, 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People'...
Author
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this masterfully written book, Tom as Hal ik calls upon Christians to touch the wounds of the world and to rediscover their own faith by loving and healing their neighbors. One of the most important voices in contemporary Catholicism, Tom as Hal ik argues that Christians can discover the clearest vision of God not by turning away from suffering but by confronting it. Hal ik calls upon us to follow the apostle Thomas's example: to see the pain,...
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