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Title: Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) by Marilyn McCord Adams ISBN: 0-8014-8686-6 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Summary: Only for the brave!
Comment: Marilyn McCord Adams takes on some of the ugliest theologico-philosophical tangles known to man - and does so very courageously. The fundamental dilemma, Does the believer in God commit himself to a logically untenable position when he posits the existence of an all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful deity, and yet acknowledges the presence of evil in the world? I.e. is there a possible world in which such a situation manifests itself? Of course, these issues have been debated to death by analytical philosophers (and some have concluded that believing in such a God is inconsistent with the existence of evil).
Dr. Adams moves away from the traditional formulations of this question within analytic circles, which makes use of the utilitarian pain/pleasure calculus type approach to morality (championed by philosophers such as Bentham and Mills). Instead, she offers alternative approaches by examining the works of various theologians throughout the ages. Among the approaches considered are purity/defilement (cf. Rudolph Otto, The Idea of the Holy), the honor code, and aesthetics. She examines the most horrible of horrors encountered by man, and uses them to show how her God can overcome these horrors despite their apparent intractibility. Among some of the more interesting ideas suggested are the notion that God indeed suffers along with us humans and that even Christ (as God) had to experience abandonment by God, in order to fully participate in the human condition (even though these have been originally suggested by others).
While I will not comment on the validity of her arguments (I think the difficulties are too great for me), I do think that she offers profound insight into the nature of God (whatever such an entity might be). It is nice to know that someone still has faith in an all-loving merciful deity, despite the fact that we live in a post-consumerist, post-industrial, post-Marxist, post-Auschwitz world.
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Title: Providence and the Problem of Evil by Richard Swinburne ISBN: 0198237987 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga ISBN: 0195131932 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings (Library of Religious Philosophy, Vol 8) by Michael L. Peterson ISBN: 0268015155 Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation by Volf Miroslav, Miroslav Volf ISBN: 0687002826 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, 3) by N. T. Wright ISBN: 0800626796 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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