Christian Understandings of Evil : The Historical Trajectory /
In this exciting volume, Charlene Burns offers a brief but thorough tour through more than two millennia of thought on the nature of evil. Starting with the contexts of the Hebrew Bible and moving forward, Burns outlines the many ways that Christian thought has attempted to deal with the reality of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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Colección: | Christian understandings.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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505 | 0 | |a Preface -- 1. Setting the stage -- 2. Personified evil in ancient Israel and early Christianity -- 3. Cosmic speculation and late ancient theodicies -- 4. Consolidating ancient themes : Middle Ages to Enlightenment -- 5. The foundations of modernity -- 6. Full circle or new directions? -- 7. Theodicies of protest and the evils of theodicy. | |
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650 | 0 | |a Theodicy |x History of doctrines. | |
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