Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine OmnipotenceHarper Collins, 2013. okt. 1. - 220 oldal This paperback edition of Creation and the Persistence of Evil brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine omnipotence, Jon Levenson defines God's authorship of the world as a consequence of his victory in his struggle with evil. Classic doctrines of God's creation of the universe from the void do not do justice to the complexity of that hard-fought battle, which is uncertain in its outcome. Levenson traces this more flexible conception of God to the earliest Hebrew sources. He argues that Genesis 1 does not describe the banishment of evil but the attempt to contain the menace of evil in the world, a struggle that continues today. |
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... God is omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent, why do the innocent suffer and the wicked prosper? With this as the pressing question, my book could be understood as a theodicy, a vindication of God's justice in the face of the enormous ...
... God provides exoneration of a sort for God's failures ( for , in Kantian terms , how can we say God ought to do what he cannot ? ) , the theology of omnipotence as a dramatic enactment allows people to fault God for the persistence of ...
... God of justice. In light of the answer, it becomes clear that the question is not an intellectual exercise but rather a taunt intended to goad the just God into action after a long quiescence. It is more like liturgy than philosophy ...
... god or worship the statue of gold that you have set up.” (Dan. 3:16–18) In this last example, it is strikingly clear that God's deliverance of his loyal worshipers is deemed neither unlikely nor inevitable, at least in this life. To ...
... God created heaven and earth.” Out of what? “The earth was chaos [tōhû wābōhû].” 5 The comment of Rav, an Amora of ... God's majesty and the goodness of his creation into doubt. Bar Qappara, a teacher of the previous generation, seems to ...
Tartalomjegyzék
THE MASTERY OF GOD AND THE VULNERABILITY OF ORDER | |
The Futurity and Presence of the Cosmogonic Victory | |
The Vitality of Evil and the Fragility of Creation | |
Creation in Seven Days | |
Rest and ReCreation | |
Chaos Neutralized in Cult | |
The Dialectic of Covenantal Theonomy | |
Notes | |
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence Jon D. Levenson Korlátozott előnézet - 1994 |
Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence Jon D. Levenson Korlátozott előnézet - 1994 |
Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence Jon Douglas Levenson Nincs elérhető előnézet - 1988 |