Evil, Fallenness, and Finitude

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This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil. The contributors approach these issues from perspectives in Continental philosophy relating to phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, rabbinical traditions, drawing upon the work of Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and Paul Ricoeur. While centering on the traditional theme of theodicy, this volume is also oriented to the phenomenology of religion, with contributions across religions and intellectual traditions. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Introduction (Bruce Ellis Benson)....Pages 1-12 The Concept of Anxiety and Kant (Alison Assiter)....Pages 13-24 Are Finite and Infinite Love the Same? Erich Przywara and Jean-Luc Marion on Analogy and Univocity (Robert Duffy)....Pages 25-39 The World Seen from the Outside: Evil and the Principle of Sufficient Reason (José María Sánchez de León Serrano)....Pages 41-55 Between the Homunculus Fallacy and Angelic Cognitive Dissonance in Explanation of Evil: Milton’s Poetry and Luzzatto’s Kabbalah (Shlomo Dov Rosen)....Pages 57-75 Evil and Finitude (Emmanuel Falque)....Pages 77-96 Philosophy and Theology: Emmanuel Falque and the New Theological Turn (Bradley B. Onishi)....Pages 97-113 Embracing Finitude: Falque’s Phenomenology of the Suffering “God with Us” (William C. Woody S.J.)....Pages 115-133 On Hanosis: Kierkegaard on the Move from Objectivity to Subjectivity in the Sin of David (Thomas Burrus)....Pages 135-154 Kierkegaardian Deconstruction and the Paradoxes of Faith (Duane Armitage)....Pages 155-168 Paul Ricoeur on Mythic-Symbolic Language: Towards a Post-theodical Understanding of the Problem of Evil (Marius-Daniel Ban)....Pages 169-184 The Fault of Forgiveness: Fragility and Memory of Evil in Volf and Ricoeur (Michael Funk Deckard, Mindy Makant)....Pages 185-201 Circulus Vitiosus Existentiae: Ricoeur’s Circular Hermeneutics of Evil (Matthew Yaw)....Pages 203-220 Back Matter ....Pages 221-224