While scholars have chronicled Czes aw Mi osz s engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles with theodicy in both poetry and thought. Mi osz wrestled with the problem of believing in a just God given the powerful evidence to the contrary in the natural world as he observed it and in the horrors of World War II and its aftermath in Poland. Rather than attempt to survey Mi osz s vast oeuvre, ukasz Tischner focuses on several key works "The Land of Ulro," "The World," "The Issa Valley," "A Treatise on Morals," "A Treatise on Poetry," and...
While scholars have chronicled Czes aw Mi osz s engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles wi...