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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Release Year: 2005
Book Title: Defending God: Biblical Responses to the Problem of Evil
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Defending God : Biblical Responses to the Problem of Evil
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, Good & Evil, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, Philosophy
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy
Item Length: 6.3 in
Author: James L. Crenshaw
Item Width: 9.1 in
Format: Hardcover
