The challenge of evil : grace and the problem of suffering / William Greenway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenway, William, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Bratʹi︠a︡ Karamazovy.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Bratʹi︠a︡ Karamazovy (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor).

Suffering--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Suffering.

Good and evil--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

x, 148 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2016]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The spiritual challenge of evil

Modern western evasions of evil

Unwitting evasion: suffering and indignant rejection of God

Salvation after the death of God: Nietzsche

Biocentrism and faces: deep ecology and the land ethic

A telling confession: Aldo Leopold and the wolf

Agape and the paradise of yes

Concerning reality: primordially and ultimately, yes

Concerning others and ourselves: primordially and ultimately, yes

Fyodor Dostoevsky and joy eyes wide open to evil

A cautionary tale: Iris Murdoch and the death of the atomistic I

Awakening in Dostoevsky: Markel and the Brothers Karamazov

Grace and the paradise of yes

Death's gift to life: living now eternally.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Greenway, William, 1963- author. Challenge of evil

ISBN:

9780664262341

0664262341

OCLC:

955274987