Christian Understandings of Evil </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Burns, Charlene P. E.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">3:1</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Fortress Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2016</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>218tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustration</extent> <extent>22 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>In Christian Understandings of Evil, Charlene P. E. Burns traces the development of the problem of evil in the Christian tradition, from its roots in Second Temple Judaism to contemporary perspectives. Burns begins with a statement of the intractability of the problem, as well as its theological and spiritual stakes: ""Evil is the thorniest of theological problems for a Christian theologian and may well be, as some have claimed, the number one cause of lost faith"" (1). Given its perennial status as the ""rock of atheism,"" the problem of evil demands serious, sensitive theological engagement. Burns undertakes a survey of theological responses to the problem of evil over the two-thousand-year span of Christian history...</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Charlene P. E. Burns</note> <subject> <topic>Theodicy</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Christian Theology</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">233</classification> <classification authority="ddc">B967-C47</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9781451484557</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15382/157.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15382/157.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071455.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>