Christian understandings of evil : the historical trajectory / Charlene P.E. Burns.

Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their...

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Uniform Title:Christian understandings.
Main Author: Burns, Charlene Embrey, 1953- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2016]
Series:Christian understandings.
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Physical Description:xi, 218 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Setting the stage -- Personified evil in ancient Israel and early Christianity -- Cosmic speculation and late ancient theodicies -- Consolidating ancient themes: Middle Ages to Enlightenment -- The foundations of modernity -- Full circule or new directions? -- Theodicies of protest and the evils of theodicy. 
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