The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning

by Eleonore Stump

The problem of evil has generated varying attempts at theodicy. To show that suffering is defeated for a sufferer, a theodicy argues that there is an outweighing benefit which could not have been gotten without the suffering. Typically, this condition has the tacit presupposition given that this is a post-Fall world. Consequently, there is a sense in which human suffering would not be shown to be defeated even if there were a successful theodicy because...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019284783X
• ISBN13: 9780192847836
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.6"