Theodicy

life and in my ministry. I have had wonderful discussions with Buddhist leaders about how to pray and about living without doing harm. I have grown in insight and in faith through talking with a Jewish lay rabbi about the nature of God, gender, and theodicy. I

Throughout the Book of Job, Job displays strength and perseverance even while being faced with extreme hardships such as the death of his loved ones and gruesome physical pain. Readers question God’s whereabouts, his relationship with Satan, and his true intentions while Job is experiencing heartbreak and torture. God’s actions in the Book of Job cause him to be portrayed in a new and unexpected light, a darker one. Some people would consider God’s reasoning for Job’s pain and suffering acceptable

Mesopotamia is one of the oldest civilizations. The civilization contained many city states and Babylon is one of them. At its height, Babylon was one of the largest, most important cities of the ancient world. It came to be understood in Akkadian as bab-ili, meaning “gate of the god,” also written in Sumerian as ka-dingir-ra, which has the same meaning. Around 2050-2000 BC, the great kingdom of the Sumerians was attacked by external invaders. Sumeria had been a powerful kingdom in the western part

Wisdom is generally understood as the right application of knowledge. Moreover, it is regarded as basic to a theological understanding of the twin concepts of Creation and Redemption, and this extends its relevance to both a discussion of the Old and New Testaments. In specific terms Wisdom is associated with Creation and with Redemption in both Testaments as an illustration of its importance in overall Salvation History. Wisdom is generally understood as the right use of knowledge. More than that

Kong Qui, better known as the Latinization of his name, Confucius, is thought to have been born around 551 B.C. in China. Confucius is China’s most famous philosopher, writer and political theorist and is responsible for philosophy of Confucianism which reflects many social and political ideas of ancient China and is more often characterized as a system of ethical and social philosophy as opposed to a religion, although it was built on a religious foundation (Center for Global Education). We mostly

Response Paper Instructions Having completed the unit of philosophy of religion, you are now ready to respond to an article written by an actual atheist. This article titled “On Being an Atheist,” was written by H. J. McCloskey in 1968 for the journal Question. McCloskey is an Australian philosopher who wrote a number of atheistic works in the 1960s and 70s including the book God and Evil (Nijhoff, 1974). In this article, McCloskey is both critical of the classical arguments for God’s existence

Irenaeus Irenaeus, born 130-202, was one of the early apologists that defended Christianity against Greco-Roman paganism and against Judaism; they also sought to protect it from modification and heresies. He was born Smyrna, which was an ancient city in Turkey. Irenaeus was the pupil of Polycarp, who in turn was supposed to be a disciple of John the Apostle. Irenaeus became the Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul (modern Lyons, France). In 177, Pothinus, the Bishop of Lyons, sent Irenaeus on a mission to

Guided Analysis: Suffering Worksheet Name: Course: Date: Instructor: Address the following questions, responding to each one directly below the question. Your total word count (including all questions and answers combined) should be between 900-1150 words. Include a reference page. Describe a time when you experienced a significant period of suffering. How did you deal with that experience? How did you find comfort in the midst of suffering? When I think of suffering, the time that comes to mind

In The Spirituality of Psalms the author, Walter Brueggeman, a Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological seminary, convincingly makes the claim that faith in the Book of Psalms “is focused on two decisive moves of faith” regarding the faith of Israel (p.9): (1) the move from a season of settled orientation to disorientation, and (2) the move from disorientation to a new orientation (p. 11). Furthermore, the author focuses his claim around three general themes regarding the types of psalms

Widespread controversy surrounds the Problem of Evil and the philosophical premises constructed. Devine entities are perceivably omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent, although the extent to which an omni-God of such can coexist with suffering is an extensively debatable topic. The objective of this essay’s argument is to posit a range of deliberation regarding the integrity of various theoretical claims, where if God truly existed, would this subjectively “all-good” entity allow evil to exist