The Evils of Theodicy
Author | : Terrence W. Tilley |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2000-03-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1579104304 |
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The thesis of this book is straightforward: Tilley argues that theodicy as a discourse practice creates evils while theodicists ignore or distort classic texts in the Christian tradition, unwittingly efface genuine evils in their attempts to justify God, and silence the voice of the suffering and the oppressed by writing them out of the theological picture. The result is often a theological legitimation of intolerable social evils.