Defending God: Biblical Responses to the Problem of EvilOxford University Press, 21 באפר׳ 2005 - 288 עמודים 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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 88
עמוד 4
... deity proclaim the various divine attributes to Moses: YHWH, YHWH, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity ...
... deity proclaim the various divine attributes to Moses: YHWH, YHWH, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity ...
עמוד 5
... deity of the storm (“the rider of the clouds”),6 and solar worship, widespread in the ancient Near East (“clothed in light,” “messengers of fire”).7 Readers who are familiar with ancient stories of creation from Egypt, Canaan, and ...
... deity of the storm (“the rider of the clouds”),6 and solar worship, widespread in the ancient Near East (“clothed in light,” “messengers of fire”).7 Readers who are familiar with ancient stories of creation from Egypt, Canaan, and ...
עמוד 6
... deity may hide his face and take back the breath of life elicits no utterance of protest. Death may come, but life persists as YHWH continues to renew creation. Such a litany of praise has as its primary purpose to foster in YHWH a ...
... deity may hide his face and take back the breath of life elicits no utterance of protest. Death may come, but life persists as YHWH continues to renew creation. Such a litany of praise has as its primary purpose to foster in YHWH a ...
עמוד 7
... deity, a felt presence within the heart. The cognitive dimension is not excluded, for the poet looks upon the god as a mentor giving instruction in the divine ways. Nor is the mysterious dimension of reality overlooked, here illustrated ...
... deity, a felt presence within the heart. The cognitive dimension is not excluded, for the poet looks upon the god as a mentor giving instruction in the divine ways. Nor is the mysterious dimension of reality overlooked, here illustrated ...
עמוד 9
... deity and chaos with the story of the exodus, which was also furnished with elaborate mythic features. A single statement stands out—“yet your footprints were unseen” (v 20b)—recalling an observation in the Hymn to the Aten that the ...
... deity and chaos with the story of the exodus, which was also furnished with elaborate mythic features. A single statement stands out—“yet your footprints were unseen” (v 20b)—recalling an observation in the Hymn to the Aten that the ...
תוכן
3 | |
PART I Spreading the Blame Around | 23 |
PART II Redefining God | 73 |
PART III Shifting to the Human Scene | 133 |
Conclusion | 191 |
Notes | 197 |
Select Bibliography | 251 |
Scripture Index | 265 |
Person Index | 271 |
Subject Index | 273 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Defending God: Biblical Responses to the Problem of Evil <span dir=ltr>James L. Crenshaw</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2005 |
Defending God: Biblical Responses to the Problem of Evil <span dir=ltr>James L. Crenshaw</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2005 |
Defending God: Biblical Responses to the Problem of Evil <span dir=ltr>James L. Crenshaw</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2005 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abraham adversary Advice and Probing Ancient Israel ancient Near East atheism attributes belief Ben Sira biblical blessing book of Job chapter concept context creator Crenshaw death deity deity’s divine justice Doubleday earth Egyptian Eliphaz Elohim emphasizes evil Exod expression Ezekiel Fortress fu¨r Genesis God’s gods guilt heaven heavenly Hebrew Bible human humankind individual innocent interpreters Isaac Isaiah Israelite James James L Jewish Job’s Joel Joel’s John Knox Jonah judge justice and mercy language literary literature mortals narrative narrator nations nature Old Testament one’s Oxford people’s person poem poet praise prayer present prophet Prov Proverbs Psalm 14 Psalm 82 psalmist punishment Qoheleth question religious response resurrection righteous servant Sheffield Sheol Sira Sira’s story suffering theodicy Theology thought tion tradition Ugarit understanding University Press verb verse Walter Brueggemann Westminster John Knox wicked wisdom wisdom literature word worship YHWH YHWH’s York
הפניות לספר זה
Abraham: Trials of Family and Faith <span dir=ltr>Terence E. Fretheim</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2007 |