200 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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In a diverse and innovative selection of new essays by cutting-edge theologians and philosophers, Suffering Religion examines one of the most primitive but challenging questions to define human experience - why do we suffer? As a theme uniting very different religious and cultural traditions, the problem of suffering addresses issues of passivity, the vulnerability of embodiment, the generosity... Read more
Introduction, Robert Gibbs and Elliot R. Wolfson; 1. Robert Gibbs, Unjustifiable Suffering; 2. Steven Kepnes, Re-reading job as Textual Theodicy; 3. Cleo McNelly Kaerns, Suffering in Theory; 4. Pamela E. Klassen, The Scandal of Pain in Childbirth; 5. Elliot R. Wolfson, Divine Suffering and the Hermeneutics of Reading: Philosophical Reflections on Lurianic Mythology; 6. Graham Ward, Suffering and Incarnation; Epilogue: theology and Religious Studies
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Robert Gibbs, Elliot R. Wolfson
