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Divine Evil?: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham

Divine Evil?: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham


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Adherents of the Abrahamic religions have traditionally held that God is morally perfect and unconditionally deserving of devotion, obedience, love, and worship. The Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptures tell us that God is compassionate, merciful, and just. As is well-known, however, these same scriptures contain passages that portray God as wrathful, severely punitive, and jealous. Critics furthermore argue that the God of these scriptures commends bigotry, misogyny, and homophobia, condones slavery, and demands the adoption of unjust laws-for example, laws that mandate the death penalty for adultery and rebellion against parents, and laws institutionalizing in various ways the diverse kinds of bigotry and oppression just mentioned. In recent days, these sorts of criticisms of the Hebrew Bible have been raised in new and forceful ways by philosophers, scientists, social commentators, and others. This volume brings together eleven original essays representing the views of both critics and defenders of the character of God as portrayed in these texts. Authors represent the disciplines of philosophy, religion, and Biblical studies. Each essay is accompanied by comments from another author who takes a critical approach to the thesis defended in that essay, along with replies by the essay's author.

Table of Contents:
Michael Bergmann, Michael J. Murray, and Michael C. Rea: Introduction Philosophical Perspectives I: Problems Presented 1: Louise Antony: Does God Love Us? Eleonore Stump: Comments on 'Does God Love Us?' Louise Antony: Reply to Stump 2: Edward Curley: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Peter van Inwagen: Comments on 'The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' Edward Curley: Reply to van Inwagen 3: Evan Fales: Satanic Verses: Moral Chaos in Holy Writ Alvin Plantinga: Comments on 'Satanic Verses: Moral Chaos in Holy Writ.' Evan Fales: Reply to Plantinga II: Solutions Proposed 4: John Hare: Animal Sacrifices James Crenshaw: Comments on Animal Sacrifices John Hare: Reply to Crenshaw 5: Mark C. Murphy: God Beyond Justice Wes Morriston: Comments on 'God Beyond Justice' Mark C. Murphy: Reply to Morriston 6: Eleonore Stump: The Problem of Evil and the History of Peoples: Think Amalek Paul Draper: Comments on 'The Problem of Evil and the History of Peoples: Think Amalek' Eleonore Stump: Reply to Draper 7: Richard Swinburne: What does the Old Testament Mean? Wes Morriston: Comments on 'What does the Old Testament Mean?' Richard Swinburne: Reply to Morriston 8: Nicholas Wolterstorff: Reading Joshua Louise Antony: Comments on 'Reading Joshua' Nicholas Wolterstorff: Reply to Antony Theological Perspectives 9: Gary A. Anderson: What About the Canaanites? Nicholas Wolterstorff: Comments on 'What About the Canaanites' Gary A. Anderson: Reply to Wolterstorff 10: Christopher Seitz: Canon and Conquest: The Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible Evan Fales: Comments on 'Canon and Conquest: The Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible' Christopher Seitz: Reply to Fales Concluding Remarks 11: Howard Wettstein: God's Struggles Index

About the Author :
Michael Bergmann is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He received his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Waterloo and his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame. He has held fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Pew Charitable Trusts. He has published numerous articles in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion as well as a book, Justification without Awareness. Michael J. Murray is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor in the Humanities and Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA). He received his B.A. at Franklin & Marshall College, and his M.A, and Ph.D at the University of Notre Dame. He has held fellowships from the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Madison, Wisconsin), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion. His recent publications include Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering, and The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion (edited with Jeffrey Schloss). Michael C. Rea is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. He received his B.A. at UCLA and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame. He has published numerous articles in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion and is author or editor of more than ten books, including Analytic Theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology (with Oliver Crisp), Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (with Thomas Flint).

Review :
This collection of essays exemplifies the increasingly specific and sophisticated nature of the devates now taking place among philosophers of religion...sophisticated and thought-provoking. the volume succeeds in making explicit the charges against the God of the Bible while also making available a variety of defenses by some of the most outstanding contributors to philosophy of religion today. a solid, thought-provoking, and interesting book ... a reading feast ofcontemplation the book contains a variety of theistic approaches to dealing with the problem of divine evil. ... Whatever one makes of divine evil, this book most certainly promotes the human good.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199576739
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham
  • Width: 164 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199576734
  • Publisher Date: 25 Nov 2010
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 350
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 688 gr


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