The Challenge of Evil
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The Challenge of Evil

Grace and the Problem of Suffering

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The Challenge of Evil

Grace and the Problem of Suffering

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About This Book

Belief in God in the face of suffering is one of the most intractable problems of Christian theology. Many respond to the spiritual challenge of evil by ignoring it, blaming God, or insisting on the inherent meaninglessness of life. In this book, William Greenway contends that we don't have to deny our moral selves by either ignoring evil or abandoning our moral sensibilities toward it. We can open our eyes fully to suffering and evil, and our own complicity in them. We can do so because it is only in this full acceptance of the world's guilt and our own that we make ourselves fully open to agape, to being seized by love of others and God. Inspired by the Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and the Christian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Challenge of Evil lovingly explains how we can look squarely at the overwhelming suffering in the world and still, by grace, have faith in a good and loving God.

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Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781611647815
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Philosophy of Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Contents
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction: The Spiritual Challenge of Evil
  11. Part 1: Modern Western Evasions of Evil
  12. Part 2: Agape and the Paradise of “Yes”
  13. Part 3: Fyodor Dostoevsky and Joy Eyes Wide Open to Evil
  14. Afterword: Philosophical Spirituality and Christian Theology
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index of Names