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I more than others : responses to evil and suffering / edited by Eric R. Severson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 211 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781443818193
  • 1443818194
  • 1282585266
  • 9781282585263
  • 9786612585265
  • 6612585269
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: I more than others.DDC classification:
  • 128.4 22
LOC classification:
  • B105.S79 I66 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • CC 7200
  • 5,1
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Contents:
Introduction -- Praying for an earthier Jesus : a theology of flesh / John D. Caputo -- Deferral : a response to John D. Caputo's The weakness of God / Craig Keen -- Time, hope, and slumdogs : suffering and creatio ex nihilo / Eric R. Severson -- Environmentalism : I more than others / Christopher Caldwell -- Our responsibility for universal evil : rethinking fallenness in ecological terms / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- Race and hospitality : pursuing racial reconciliation through Derrida's understanding of hospitality / Nathan Crawford -- When the creature became the creator and other Cartesian nightmares / Heather Ross -- The epistemology and ethics of hope / Joshua Kira -- The transcendence and banality of evil / Eric Boynton -- Thebes revisited : theodicy and the temporality of evil / John Penteleimon Manoussakis -- God's good as intrinsic and God's good as instrumental : discerning analytical foundations for the problem of natural evil / Brint Montgomery -- Defending God's decision to create a suffering world : a Thomistic analysis of evil, privation, and foreknowledge / Eric Manchester -- To be or not to be : relational ontology and the irreality of evil / Timothy Crutcher -- The problem of evil from a panentheistic perspective : "And there shall be no pain" (Rev. 21:4) : suffering as the price for development / Thomas Klibengajtis -- Islamic suicide bombing and the question of evil / Geoffrey Karabin.
Summary: Fyodor Dostoyevsky expressed a strange and surprising sentiment through one of the characters of The Brothers Karamazov. A dying young man named Markel declares: ""Every one of us has sinned against all men, and I more than others." He later says: " ... every one of us is answerable for everyone else and for everything." Markel's absurd claims have engendered many reflections on the nature of suffering and what it means to be responsible for someone else's suffering. The world has no shortage of p ...

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Praying for an earthier Jesus : a theology of flesh / John D. Caputo -- Deferral : a response to John D. Caputo's The weakness of God / Craig Keen -- Time, hope, and slumdogs : suffering and creatio ex nihilo / Eric R. Severson -- Environmentalism : I more than others / Christopher Caldwell -- Our responsibility for universal evil : rethinking fallenness in ecological terms / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- Race and hospitality : pursuing racial reconciliation through Derrida's understanding of hospitality / Nathan Crawford -- When the creature became the creator and other Cartesian nightmares / Heather Ross -- The epistemology and ethics of hope / Joshua Kira -- The transcendence and banality of evil / Eric Boynton -- Thebes revisited : theodicy and the temporality of evil / John Penteleimon Manoussakis -- God's good as intrinsic and God's good as instrumental : discerning analytical foundations for the problem of natural evil / Brint Montgomery -- Defending God's decision to create a suffering world : a Thomistic analysis of evil, privation, and foreknowledge / Eric Manchester -- To be or not to be : relational ontology and the irreality of evil / Timothy Crutcher -- The problem of evil from a panentheistic perspective : "And there shall be no pain" (Rev. 21:4) : suffering as the price for development / Thomas Klibengajtis -- Islamic suicide bombing and the question of evil / Geoffrey Karabin.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky expressed a strange and surprising sentiment through one of the characters of The Brothers Karamazov. A dying young man named Markel declares: ""Every one of us has sinned against all men, and I more than others." He later says: " ... every one of us is answerable for everyone else and for everything." Markel's absurd claims have engendered many reflections on the nature of suffering and what it means to be responsible for someone else's suffering. The world has no shortage of p ...

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