Suffering Religion

ISBN-13: 9780415266123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str.

Robert Gibbs; Elliot R. Wolfson

Opis

In a diverse and innovative selection of new essays by theologians and philosophers, this text examines one of the most primitive yet challenging questions to define human experience - that of why we suffer. As a theme uniting very different religious and cultural traditions, the problem of suffering presents us with conflicts of agency versus passivity, of degradation versus enrichment and of deprivation versus excess. Can the notion of goodness retain meaning in the face of real affliction, or is pain itself in conflict with meaning? And who decides that we must suffer, anyway?

Spis treści

Introduction, Robert Gibbs and Elliot R. Wolfson; 1. Robert Gibbs, Unjustifiable Suffering; 2. Steven Kepnes, Re-reading job as Textual Theodicy; 3. Cleo McNelly Kaerns, Suffering in Theory; 4. Pamela E. Klassen, The Scandal of Pain in Childbirth; 5. Elliot R. Wolfson, Divine Suffering and the Hermeneutics of Reading: Philosophical Reflections on Lurianic Mythology; 6. Graham Ward, Suffering and Incarnation; Epilogue: theology and Religious Studies

O autorze

Robert Gibbs, Elliot R. Wolfson