Evil and the Cross: An Analytical Look at the Problem of Pain

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A world renowned author and scholar grapples with the problem of evil existing in a world ruled by an all—loving and all—powerful God.

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ISBN-13:	9780825420764
Publisher:	Kregel Publications
Publication date:	12/21/2004
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	5.54(w) x 8.54(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Henri Blocher is professor of systematic theology at the Faculte Libre de Theologie Evangelique in Vaux—sur—Seine, France, and he holds the newly endowed Gunther H. Knoedler Chairr of Theology in the Biblical and Theological Studies Ph.D. program at Wheaton College. Widely recognized as a leading theologian and an evangelical statesman, Blocher has lectured or taught in schools in Europe, Australia, Africa, Canada, and the U.S. He has written many works in French and English, including In the Beginning, Songs of the Servant, and Original Sin: Illuminating the Bible.

	Translator's preface	7
	Introduction	9
	Evil: the reality behind the word	10
	The three questions about evil	12
	The three solutions of human reason	13
	The proposed shape of our study	17
1	The solution by universal order	19
	The best of all possible worlds	20
	Evil as the waste product of evolution	22
	Evil, the 'bite of non-being'	26
	Evaluation	31
2	The solution by autonomous freedom	36
	'Meonic' freedom: Nikolai Berdyaev	37
	Hardly God at all: Wilfred Monod	39
	Process theology	41
	The powerless God in our midst: Dietrich Bonhoeffer	42
	The ethical vision: Immanuel Kant	44
	The dizzying anxiety of freedom: Soren Kierkegaard	46
	God's withdrawal	48
	The constraints of soul-making: John Hick	51
	Evaluation	55
3	The solution by dialectical reasoning	65
	The dialectics of the abyss: Jakob Boehme	66
	Non-being overcome: Paul Tillich	67
	The dialectics of the cross: Hegel	70
	The cross within God: Jurgen Moltmann	72
	The dialectics of grace: Karl Barth	76
	Evaluation	80
4	Scripture on evil, principally its origin	84
	The evil reality of evil	85
	The universal sovereignty of the Lord	90
	The unadulterated goodness of God and his work	96
	The thorn in reason's flesh	100
	Inscrutability, the cross, hope	102
5	Evil and the kingdom	105
	Evil abolished in the kingdom	105
	The kingdom that has come in Jesus Christ	108
	The persistence and growth of evil	109
	An unforeseen postponement?	111
	The 'dispensationalist' division of history	111
	The liberal school of Albert Schweitzer	113
	The unfolding of the ages	119
	The virulent counter-attack	122
	The necessity of faith	125
	The way of the kingdom	127
	Conclusion	128
	Inscrutability	128
	Light in the darkness	130
	Evil conquered as evil	131
	Notes	134

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Evil and the Cross is a must read. It should be required of every theologian and every seminarian (the book actually began as a series of articles in Hokhma, a French journal for theology students). But, speaking as a pastor, it is just the sort of theology pastors should read as well. Not only does Blocker treat a universal pastoral issueówhat pastor has not faced the "why" question?óhe also models pastoral theologizing, teasing out as he goes the real—life implications of his analysis. Further, while the book would probably overtax readers without some background in theology (and challenge those who do!), it is well—written and manages that most artful balance of "enough but not too much," so as to be really useful.

Criswell Theological Review - C. Richard Wells

Evil and the Cross is a must read. It should be required of every theologian and every seminarian (the book actually began as a series of articles in Hokhma, a French journal for theology students). But, speaking as a pastor, it is just the sort of theology pastors should read as well. Not only does Blocker treat a universal pastoral issueówhat pastor has not faced the "why" question?óhe also models pastoral theologizing, teasing out as he goes the real-life implications of his analysis. Further, while the book would probably overtax readers without some background in theology (and challenge those who do!), it is well-written and manages that most artful balance of "enough but not too much," so as to be really useful.--C. Richard Wells "Criswell Theological Review" (3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM)

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Evil and the Cross is a must read. It should be required of every theologian and every seminarian (the book actually began as a series of articles in Hokhma, a French journal for theology students). But, speaking as a pastor, it is just the sort of theology pastors should read as well. Not only does Blocker treat a universal pastoral issueówhat pastor has not faced the "why" question?óhe also models pastoral theologizing, teasing out as he goes the real-life implications of his analysis. Further, while the book would probably overtax readers without some background in theology (and challenge those who do!), it is well-written and manages that most artful balance of "enough but not too much," so as to be really useful.
— C. Richard Wells

Criswell Theological Review

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