Defending God : Biblical Responses to the Problem of Evil
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195140028
ISBN-13
9780195140026
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
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Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
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GB
Publication Date
May 19th, 2005
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
567 grams
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24.10 x 16.30 x 2.50 cms
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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.
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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