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Author | : Jongseock James Shin |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2022-10-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1666791458 |
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This book presents a third way to envision the Creatorship of the Triune God who is both compassionate and eschatologically redemptive in providential presence, rather than biasedly gravitating toward the openness of a self-limiting God or God’s all-determining sovereignty. Not only is God in, with, and under creation, God’s kenotic presence invites creatures to participate in the self-giving love of God through both general and special divine action in a top-down-through-bottom-up mode. Creatio continua is God’s own journey of fulfilling the eschatological promise for creation. This redemptive presence of God in creation is a Trinitarian co-protesting against the power of death, sin, and evil, considering the cosmic dimensions of the eschatological hope promised in the resurrection of Jesus. The new creation is the ultimate fulfillment of creaturely freedom and contingency divinely granted in creatio ex nihilo. In arguing this, Shin engages in a comparative and critical study of natural and cosmic theodicy advanced by Catherine Keller, Arthur Peacocke, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Robert Russell.
Author | : John C. Peckham |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 149341576X |
Download Theodicy of Love Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
If God is all powerful and entirely good and loving, why is there so much evil in the world? Based on a close canonical reading of Scripture, this book offers a new approach to the challenge of reconciling the Christian confession of a loving God with the realities of suffering and evil. John Peckham offers a constructive proposal for a theodicy of love that upholds both the sovereignty of God and human freedom, showing that Scripture points toward a framework for thinking about God's love in relation to the world.
Author | : Richard Rice |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830880208 |
Download Suffering and the Search for Meaning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Suffering is a philosophical problem, but it is much more. It is deeply personal. Why is this happening to me? How can I respond to friends and family in pain and loss, and to people in my care? Richard Rice guides readers through the seven most significant theodicies—approaches that have been used to make sense of suffering in light of God's justice or control. He considers the strengths and weaknesses of each option, while always guiding us toward greater understanding and compassion. Rice goes further by offering guidelines for constructing a personal framework for dealing practically with suffering, one that draws from philosophy, ethics, theology and real-world experience. Intending for each of us to find a response to our suffering that is both intellectually satisfying and personally authentic, Rice provides the resources for meeting this challenge. He weaves together the theoretical side of the theodicies with personal stories of people who have experienced great suffering. While no framework can perfectly account for the problem of pain, we are left with the overarching insight that suffering never has the final word.
Author | : Jongseock Shin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Cosmology |
ISBN | : |
Download Natural/cosmic Theodicy in Trinitarian Panentheism as a Kenotic-Eschatological Framework of Creation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Philip Pegan |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2024-01-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 166692427X |
Download A Theodicy for a Suffering World with a Hidden God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
If God exists, why is there so much pain and suffering, and why isn’t his existence more obvious? In A Theodicy for a Suffering World with a Hidden God, Philip Pegan develops a theodicy in answer to these questions. This theodicy is consistent with theological determinism—the belief that everything is determined by the will of God—and with the possibility that human beings are entirely physical in nature. It affirms that all creatures capable of suffering will eventually enjoy a life of eternal happiness and shows that it is plausible that, if God allows suffering in such a creature, there is an outweighing good that he can bring about in the life of that creature. Pegan’s theodicy is compatible with the claim that the world is unsurpassably good. It assumes value realism but could be revised in a way that preserves its framework and main substance while assuming value antirealism.
Author | : Harry Lee Poe |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830839542 |
Download God and the Cosmos Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that God's interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally by the Bible and the contemporary scientific record. Rather than confirming that the cosmos is closed to the actions of the divine, advancing scientific knowledge seems to indicate that the nature of the universe is actually open to the unique type of divine activity portrayed in the Bible.
Author | : Gregory A. Boyd |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2001-10-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780830815500 |
Download Satan and the Problem of Evil Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gregory Boyd seeks to defend his scripturally grounded trinitarian warfare theod-icy with rigorous philosophical reflection and insights from human experience and scientific discovery.
Author | : Nancey C. Murphy |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451408423 |
Download On the Moral Nature of the Universe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ellis and Murphy show how contemporary sciences actually support a religiously based ethic of nonviolence, not by appealing to the Enlightment's mechanismic Creator God or revelation's Father God but by discerning the transcendent ground in the laws of nature, the emergence of intelligent freedom, and the echoes of "knoetic" self-giving in cosmology and biology.
Author | : Willem B. Drees |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 113443670X |
Download Is Nature Ever Evil? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Can nature be evil, or ugly, or wrong? Can we apply moral value to nature? From a compellingly original premise, under the auspices of major thinkers including Mary Midgley, Philip Hefner, Arnold Benz and Keith Ward, Is Nature Ever Evil? examines the value-structure of our cosmos and of the science that seeks to describe it. Science, says editor Willem B. Drees, claims to leave moral questions to aesthetic and religious theory. But the supposed neutrality of the scientific view masks a host of moral assumptions. How does an ethically transparent science arrive at concepts of a 'hostile' universe or a 'selfish' gene? How do botanists, zoologists, cosmologists and geologists respond to the beauty of the universe they study, reliant as it is upon catastrophe, savagery, power and extinction? Then there are various ways in which science seeks to alter and improve nature. What do prosthetics and gene technology, cyborgs and dairy cows say about our appreciation of nature itself? Surely science, in common with philosophy, magic and religion, can aid our understanding of evil in nature - whether as natural catasrophe, disease, predatory cruelty or mere cosmic indifference? Focusing on the ethical evaluation of nature itself, Is Nature Ever Evil? re-ignites crucial questions of hope, responsibility, and possibility in nature.
Author | : Niels Henrik Gregersen |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451465408 |
Download Incarnation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Deeply engaged with both the tradition and the contemporary world, the book leads readers to an understanding of deep incarnation, interpreting this central Christian idea to address the needs of the entire created order, and allows Christology to be relevant and meaningful when responding to the challenges of scientific cosmology and of global religious pluralism.