The Hardest Problem: God, Evil and Suffering Shortt Rupert
The Hardest Problem: God, Evil and Suffering Shortt Rupert To many, the problem of evil and suffering constitutes by far the most serious objection to mainstream religious belief. That visceral…
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The Hardest Problem: God, Evil and Suffering Shortt Rupert
To many, the problem of evil and suffering constitutes by far the most serious objection to mainstream religious belief. That visceral feelings often dominate discussion is understandable on one level. For all its starkness and salience, though, the dilemma is also widely misinterpreted.
Basic misconceptions about core aspects of Judaism, Christianity and Islam can in turn spawn still greater caricatures of subjects including divine power. But this can displace the clearer-headed thinking needed to shed greater light on the subject.In this brief but broad-ranging book, Rupert Shortt shows that belief in a divine Creator is much more coherent intellectually than many sceptics suppose. Having cleared the ground, Shortt goes on to discuss the nature of evil from a classical Abrahamic standpoint and how Christian resources in particular offer guidance in an area where raw emotion,