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Defending God: Biblical Responses to the Problem of Evil

By James L. Crenshaw

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0195140028, 9780195140026
LCC
BS1199.T44 C74 2004
Google Books ID
J9fd_kZidwUC
Open Library ID
OL3292976M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
971 kB (994327 bytes)
Pages
287\287
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In the ancient Near East, when the gods detected gross impropriety in their ranks, they subjected their own to trial. When mortals suspect their gods of wrongdoing, do they have the right to put them on trial? What lies behind the human endeavor to impose moral standards of behavior on the gods? Is this effort an act of arrogance, as Kant suggested, or a means of keeping theological discourse honest? It is this question James Crenshaw seeks to address in this wide-ranging study of ancient theodicies. Crenshaw has been writing about and pondering the issue of theodicy - the human effort to justify the ways of the gods or God - for many years. In this volume he presents a synthesis of his ideas on this perennially thorny issue. The result sheds new light on the history of the human struggle with this intractable problem.

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