William Greenway

The Challenge of Evil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780664262341
• ISBN-10: 0664262341
• Artikelnr.: 45635832

Autorenporträt

William Greenway is professor of philosophical theology at Austin Seminary. Here and in A Reasonable Belief (2015), For the Love of All Creatures (2015), The Challenge of Evil (2016), Agape Ethics (2016), and Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular Age (2020), he defends Moral Realism Theory, contending reality has an inherent moral dimension, the force signified by "agape," requiring utilization of three discrete families of vocabularies, those of 1) modern science, 2) free will, and 3) agape.