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The problem of evil in the Western tradition : from the Book of Job to modern genetics / Joseph F. Kelly.
- Title
- The problem of evil in the Western tradition : from the Book of Job to modern genetics / Joseph F. Kelly.
- Author
- Kelly, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis), 1945-
- Publication
- Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, c2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BJ1401 .K44 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 245 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Evil presents a profound and eternal challenge to humanity--why do we do what we know to be wrong? Why does not an all-good and omnipotent God step in and put an end to evil? [This book] looks at people's efforts to deal with evil, starting with ancient Israel and moving through the great figures of the Western tradition to the twenty-first century"--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Some perspectives on evil -- Israel and evil -- The new Adam -- Out of Africa -- The broken cosmos -- The Middle Ages -- Decline and reform and humanism -- The devil's last stand -- Rationalizing evil -- The attack on Christianity -- Dissident voices -- Human evil in the nineteenth century -- Science, evil, and original sin -- Modern literary approaches to evil -- Some scientific theories of evil -- Modern religious approaches to evil.
- ISBN
- 0814651046 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001050265
- OCLC
- 48038178
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library