Posted in eschatology, theodicy on 15 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
Occasions of suffering like we are seeing in Burma and China are always jarring reminders of the fragility of life as well as the extreme vulnerability to disaster that many (especially the poor) live with. The unimaginable scale of loss and devastation (with losses in the hundreds of thousands) that is being [...]
Posted in apologetics, theodicy on 6 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve spent the better part of the last three weeks talking through what is surely the most significant challenge to Christian belief and undoubtedly one of the questions that casts a shadow over all of human existence. The problem of evil has occupied the brightest philosophical and theological minds for most of recorded history [...]
Posted in providence, theodicy on 30 August 2007 | 2 Comments »
Do we live in a world that gives evidence of the existence of a loving God?
Critics usually point to the problem of evil as evidence that the existence of a good and loving God is highly improbable. I don’t want to minimize the force of this question because I think that a lot of [...]
Posted in theodicy on 7 May 2007 | 6 Comments »
After a semester long delay, I finally finished N.T. Wright’s Evil and the Justice of God. The biblical focus of the book will do little to convince the skeptic but it is an excellent summary of the Bible’s presentation of what God has done (as opposed to what God has said) about the problem [...]
Posted in theodicy on 18 March 2007 | No Comments »
If you’ve ever wondered about the theological significance of balding and the coping mechanisms it produces, look no further. I like to think of this as a small-scale version of theodicy for those of us who are afflicted.
Posted in theodicy on 12 March 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’ve just finished David Bentley Hart’s very difficult (i.e. lots of words I had to look up) but very compelling examination of the question of evil entitled The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? Hart essentially asks the two questions that he feels are most relevant for Christians who are [...]
