TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crenshaw,James L
TI  - Defending God: biblical responses to the problem of evil 
SN  - 9780195140026
AV  - BS1199 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Theodicy
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Good and evil
N1  - 1 (pages 251.-264) and indexes; Part I: Spreading the blame around --; The atheistic answer : abandoning the quest --; Alternative gods : falling back on a convenient worldview --; A demon at work : letting benevolence slip --; Part II: Redefining God --; Limited power and knowledge : accentuating human freedom --; Split personality : reconciling justice with mercy --; A disciplinary procedure : stimulating growth in virtue --; Punishment for sin : blaming the victim --; Part III: Shifting to the human scene --; Suffering as atonement : making the most of a bad thing --; Justice deferred : banking on life beyond the grave --; Mystery : appealing to human ignorance --; Disinterested righteousness : questioning the problem; 2
N2  - "In the ancient Near East, when the gods detected gross impropriety in their ranks, they subjected their own to trial. When mortals suspect their gods of wrongdoing, do they have the right to put them on trial? What lies behind the human endeavor to impose moral standards of behavior on the gods? Is this effort an act of arrogance, as Kant suggested, or a means of keeping theological discourse honest?". "Crenshaw's exploration of the treatment of theodicy in a broad cross-section of ancient texts sheds new light on the history of the human struggle with this intractable problem."--Jacket
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