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| Titre : | Evil and the Cross |
| Auteurs : | Henri Blocher, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Downers Grove [USA] : Inter-Varsity Press (IVP), 1994 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8308-1526-5 |
| Format : | 154 p. |
| Note générale : | Titre original: le mal et La Croix (1990) |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | DB (Théodicée; Dieu et la question du mal; la violence dans la Bible) |
| Résumé : |
''While it is evil that tortures human bodies, it is the problem of evil that torments the human mind.... It resists our unremitting efforts to understand it." So begins Henri Blocher's investigation of the question that has troubled people for centuries.
Christian philosophers and theologians have proposed numerous solutions to the problem of evil. Blocher classifies the principal approaches and solutions that have been hammered out, and he sympathetically explains the proposals of their most typical representatives. But when he holds them up to the light of facts, reason and Scripture, Blocher finds none of these solutions adequate. Evil — that horrific, unjustifiable reality that elicits the human cry "No!"— is at bottom a dark and inscrutable enigma, a parasite of truth. Blocher finds the only satisfying response in the cross of Christ. There the offense of evil is in no way diminished by plausible argument. It is conquered in a moving and breathtaking play of divine wisdom. Originally published in French, Evil and the Cross is a profound grappling with a basic human question. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Translator's preface - Introduction: Evil: the reality behind the word / The three questions about evil / The three solutions of human reason / The proposed shape of our study - 1. The solution by universal order: The best of all possible worlds / Evil as the waste product of evolution / Evil, the 'bite of non-being’ / Evaluation. - 2. The solution by autonomous freedom: 'Meonic' freedom: Nikolai Berdyaev / Hardly God at all: Wilfred Monod / Process theology / The powerless God in our midst: Dietrich Bonhoeflfer / The ethical vision: Immanuel Kant / The dizzying anxiety of freedom: Søren Kierkegaard / God's withdrawal / The constraints of soul-making: John Hick / Evaluation - 3. The solution by dialectical reasoning: The dialectics of the abyss: Jakob Boehme / Non-being overcome: Paul Tillich / The dialectics of the cross: Hegel / The cross within God: Jürgen Moltmann / The dialectics of grace: Karl Barth / Evaluation. - 4. Scripture on evil, principally its origin: The evil reality of evil / The universal sovereignty of the Lord / The unadulterated goodness of God and his work / The thorn in reason's flesh / Inscrutability, the cross, hope. - 5. Evil and the kingdom: Evil abolished in the kingdom / The kingdom that has come in Jesus Christ / The persistence and growth of evil / An unforeseen postponement? / The 'dispensationalist' division of history / The liberal school of Albert Schweitzer / The unfolding of the ages / The virulent counter-attack / The necessity of faith / The way of the kingdom - Conclusion: Inscrutability / Light in the darkness / Evil conquered as evil - Notes |
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| DB 014b | DB 014b | Livre | Bibliothèque principale | Livres empruntables | Prêt possible Disponible |
