Raging with compassion : pastoral responses to the problem of evil

Publication Data

• Title Raging with compassion : pastoral responses to the problem of evil
• Author John Swinton
• Publisher William B. Eerdmans Pub.
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Grand Rapids, Mich.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction
The problem with the problem of evil : pastoral perspectives
The problem with the problem of evil : from philosophical to practical theodicy
Defining evil
From theodicy to resistance : developing the practices of redemption
Why me, Lord
why me? : the practice of lament as resistance and deliverance
Battling monsters and resurrecting persons : practicing forgiveness in the face of radical evil
Practicing thoughtfulness : what are people for?
Friendship, strangeness, and hospitable communities.

Topics

• Theodicy
• Good and evil :: Religious aspects :: Christianity
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Raging with compassion : pastoral responses to the problem of evil by John Swinton. ISBN 9780802829979. Published by William B. Eerdmans Pub. in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.