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The Challenge of Evil:

Grace and the Problem of Suffering

  • Paperback
  • 160 pages
  • Publisher: Westminster John Knox
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1 cm

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For Christians grappling with suffering and evil

Addresses doubts about God's goodness amid pain

You will find hope and grace in the face of evil

This book explores how to understand suffering while maintaining faith in a loving God.
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.
The Challenge of Evil: and Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular Age
Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular AgeThe Challenge of Evil:
  • Title

    The Challenge of Evil:

  • Author

    William Greenway

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Westminster John Knox

  • Published

    November 2016

  • Weight

    246g

  • Page Count

    160

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780664262341

  • ISBN-10

    0664262341

  • Eden Code

    4500277

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