The Inscrutable God
The Inscrutable God

Author: Dario Lisiero

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-07-20

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1304250326

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This is the story of the Inscrutable God that becomes scrutable, of the Omnipresent that is Absent, of the All-powerful and Almighty that ends up being Powerless and a Loser. The history of salvation that goes from Abraham to Jesus, passing through Moses and King David and will last until the Judgment Day is a testament to numerous changes and transformations. In the name of the supreme value "love in freedom" God does not disdain to assume all human weaknesses, except sin, to gain back the total trust and affection of his rebellious creature. In the history of humankind there is no love story so tender and moving that can be compared to this. The Inscrutable God by sacrificing his Son in order to save his servant becomes the ultimate paradigm of any human love and the only example to follow.

God and Inscrutable Evil
God and Inscrutable Evil

Author: David O'Connor

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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In this important new book, David O'Connor discusses both logical and empirical forms of the problem of inscrutable evil, perennially the most difficult philosophical problem confronting theism. Arguing that both a version of theism ("friendly theism") and a version of atheism ("friendly atheism") are justified on the evidence in the debate over God and evil, O'Connor concludes that a warranted outcome is a philosophical dètente between those two positions. On the way to that conclusion he develops two arguments from evil, a reformed version of the logical argument and an indirect version of the empirical argument, and deploys both against a central formulation of theism that he describes as orthodox theism. God and Inscrutable Evil makes a valuable contribution to contemporary debates in the philosophy of religion.

The God of the Old Testament
The God of the Old Testament

Author: R. W. L. Moberly

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1493428381

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Walter Moberly is a top Old Testament theologian known for his creative, accessible, and provocative writing. His Old Testament Theology has been well received. This book, written in a similar vein, combines biblical criticism with constructive theology and engages both Jewish and Christian interpretations. Moberly offers robust readings of eight pivotal Old Testament passages that unpack the nature of God in Christian Scripture, demonstrating a Christian approach to reading the Old Testament that holds together the priorities of both scholarship and faith.

Inscrutable Malice
Inscrutable Malice

Author: Jonathan A. Cook

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2012-12-15

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1609090780

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In Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville's creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work. Cook identifies two ongoing concerns in the narrative in relation to their key biblical sources: the attempt to reconcile the goodness of God with the existence of evil, as dramatized in the book of Job; and the discourse of the Christian end-times involving the final destruction of evil, as found in the apocalyptic books and eschatological passages of the Old and New Testaments. With his detailed reading of Moby-Dick in relation to its most important source text, Cook greatly expands the reader's understanding of the moral, religious, and mythical dimensions of the novel. Both accessible and erudite, Inscrutable Malice will appeal to scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Melville's classic whaling narrative.

Close to His Majesty
Close to His Majesty

Author: C. David Needham

Publisher: Multnomah

Published: 1989-11

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780880703321

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Through 15 worshipful meditations on God's attributes, this book encourages readers to walk with God and experience what it really means to draw close to His majesty. A discussion guide for each chapter is included.

Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss

Author: Kenneth L. Deutsch

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780847678389

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In this book, 19 prominent representatives of each side in the basic division among Strauss's followers explore his contribution to political philosophy and Jewish thought. The volume presents the most extensive analysis yet published of Strauss's religious heritage and how it related to his work, and includes Strauss's previously unpublished 'Why We Remain Jews, ' an extraordinary essay concerned with the challenge posed to Judaism by modern secular thought. The extensive introduction interrelates the major themes of Strauss's thought

God of Sense and Traditions of Non-Sense
God of Sense and Traditions of Non-Sense

Author: Sigve K. Tonstad

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-01-19

Total Pages: 621

ISBN-13: 1498233147

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One hundred taxis lined up on Church Street in Oslo on November 26, 1942, deployed in order to round up the city's Jews and send them to Auschwitz. This reality anchors God of Sense and Traditions of Non-Sense: it is theology from a Holocaust perspective. The brash Elihu excoriating Job for his insistence that he is owed an explanation for the calamities that have befallen him. This is the book's opening salvo. Job speaking of a God of sense, Elihu and Job's three friends inaugurating a tradition of non-sense: this is the existential and theological predicament. The problem of finite suffering in this life addressed in the theological tradition with the prospect of infinite, endless suffering, in this book described as a key element in Traditions of Non-Sense. Back to the millions of Jews, among them 188 women and 42 children from Oslo, deported, gassed, and cremated--in God of Sense this is not seen as a problem that defeats belief, but as the reality that demands a religious and theological account of human existence.

Joy at the End of the Tether
Joy at the End of the Tether

Author: Douglas Wilson

Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1885767501

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Most Christians view the book of Ecclesiastes as an enigma, a puzzle from which we might draw a few aphorisms but little else. Douglas Wilson's fresh, lucid treatment of this wonderful book enables us to see that its message is not a confused riddle but an incisive indictment of "the wisdom of this world." We learn that what we call "modernity" is simply a term for men sinning in the old ways with new toys and tools. There is truly nothing new "under the sun"; man's problems today are exactly what they have been since the Fall. And the answer to man's problem is just as old, yet forever new - "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." (Steve Wilkins)