Contemporary writers Albert Camus, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Elie Wiesel, and Sylvie Germain transpose the problem confronting the biblical Job in a century of total wars and genocides. Broadly influenced by a range of (a)theological perspectives, these authors grapple with existen…
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As the primary stratum of the rabbinic corpus, the Mishna establishes a dynamic between rabbinic authority and olam haba that sets the course for all subsequent rabbinic discussions of the idea. The Mishna Sanhedrin presents the rabbis as arbiters of the afterlife, who regulate …
When considering Paul's theodicy in Romans, most scholars limit their investigations to Romans 9-11, chapters in which Paul discusses the future of unbelieving Israel. In doing so, they ignore Paul's theodicy--the defense of God's righteousness that he makes throughout the lette…
This study examines the problem of ethnic suffering and moral evil in Black Judaism. Black Judaism has been traditionally studied along anthropological and sociological lines, as a result, the core beliefs and theological issues which animate the faith tradition have not been th…
I, most broadly, set out in this dissertation to interrogate the tight-knit relationships between American antislavery literature—from the late 1820s until the Civil War—and its intense preoccupation with the problem of evil and black doubt. I am keenly interested in a literary …
The biblical books of Kings and Chronicles have puzzled scholars for years. Although they describe roughly the same time period, their versions of history can be divergent. This has led several scholars to dismiss the later accounts in Chronicles as mythic creations of the autho…
The book of Job is analyzed as Hebrew theodicy centering in a debate over divine justice with the sides forming two major themes—law versus cosmology. The book may be viewed as providing a solution to the problem of divine justice and human suffering in a natural step forward in…
The purpose of this dissertation is to explain how the issue of theodicy is resolved in the book of Habakkuk. Using a holistic, synchronic approach to read the book as a literary whole, this thesis investigates how its writer presents his case, and how he comes to the final reso…
The idea of moral evil has always held a special place in philosophy and theology because the existence of evil has implications for the dignity of the human and the limits of human action. Andrew M. Flescher proposes four interpretations of evil, drawing on philosophical and th…
The idea of moral evil has always held a special place in philosophy and theology because the existence of evil has implications for the dignity of the human and the limits of human action. Andrew Michael Flescher proposes four interpretations of evil, drawing on philosophical a…
Moral evil
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The idea of moral evil has always held a special place in philosophy and theology because the existence of evil has implications for the dignity of the human and the limits of human action. Andrew Michael Flescher proposes four interpretations of evil, drawing on philosophical a…
The idea of moral evil has always held a special place in philosophy and theology because the existence of evil has implications for the dignity of the human and the limits of human action. Andrew M. Flescher proposes four interpretations of evil, drawing on philosophical and th…
