T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0567682439 ISBN 13: 9780567682437

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2023

Synopsis

This wide-ranging work provides an extensive exploration of the theology of theodicy, asking questions such as: should all instances of suffering necessarily be understood as evil? Why would an omnipotent and benevolent God allow or perpetrate evil? Is God unable or unwilling to reduce human and non-human suffering on Earth? Does humanity have the capacity to exercise a moral evaluation of God's motives and intentions?

Conventional disciplinary boundaries have tended to separate theological approaches to these questions from philosophical ones. This volume aims to overcome these boundaries by including biblical (Part I), historical (Part II), doctrinal (Part III), philosophical (Part IV), and pastoral, interreligious perspectives and alternative intersections (Part V) on theodicy.

Authors include thinkers from analytic and continental traditions, multiple Christian denominations and other religions, and both established and younger scholars, providing a full variety of approaches. What unites the essays is an attempt to answer these questions from the perspective of biblical testimony, historical scholarship, modern theological and philosophical thinking about the concept of God, non-Christian religions, science and the arts. The result is a combination of in-depth analysis and breadth of scope, making this a benchmark work for further studies in the theology of suffering and evil.

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About the Authors

Matthias Grebe is Lecturer and Tutor at St. Mellitus College, London, and Associate Vicar at St. Edward, King and Martyr, in Cambridge. Prior to his current position, Matthias held a senior research fellowship at the University of Bonn. He studied theology at Tübingen, Cambridge, and Princeton, and finished his doctorate at Cambridge in 2012.

Johannes Grössl is Assistant Professor of Fundamental Theology and Comparative Studies of Religion at the University of Würzburg, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567682439
• ISBN 13: 9780567682437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 752
• Editor: Grebe Matthias, Grössl Johannes