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📜  Table of Contents 📜  Copyright Information Page 📜  Front Matter 📜  Marketing Excerpt √      Βιβλίο Ιώβ στη μετάφραση των  Ο΄  ( μετάφραση της Βιβλικής Εταιρίας ) Espen Dahl , The Problem of Job and the Problem of Evil , Cambridge University Press ( Elements in Religion and Violence ), 2019 . «Despite the secular age that has emerged in the West, the discussions have not ceased. This is due, I assume, not only to some sort of “return” of religion in politics and academia but also to the fact that encountering evil calls for thought – thought that, sooner or later, for better or worse, touches religious dimensions (and, at times, denial thereof)». [ p. 3 ] «Of course, the Greek treatment of suffering and evil is marked by another cultural setting and preferences for other conceptions, indeed, against another religious horizon than that which we find in the Hebrew Bible . Nevertheless, the convergences are significant, and ...

Modern theological approaches to birth have been filtered  through an androcentric lens, focusing more on ethical questions of  contraception and abortion than on the significance of birth for what it  means to be human. In the Catholic tradition , this has been influenced  by doctrines and traditions surrounding Mary ’ s virginal conception of  Christ and painless birth . This Element considers the challenges posed  by maternal life to ideas and theories about pregnancy, childbirth, and  the relationship between a woman and her newborn child. Reflecting  on her maternal experiences through the lenses of feminist theory and  Marian theology , the author sketches the contours of an incarnational  theology that endows the birthing body with sacramental significance.  She concludes by asking what it would mean for theological  anthropology to adopt this as the normative model of the person  reborn through baptism into the bo...

Παρουσίαση του βιβλίου τού  Daniel Little , Confronting Evil in History , Cambridge University Press ( Elements in Historical Theory and Practice), Κέιμπριτζ – Νέα Υόρκη , 2022 [ 3΄ ] . Confronting Evil in History is a contribution to the philosophy of history , but it is a somewhat unusual contribution. The twentieth century witnessed the most sustained and devastating regimes of mass murder, enslavement, and degradation that the world has yet witnessed. The genocide of the Holocaust, the massive killing and degradation associated with Stalin’s war of starvation against the Ukrainian countryside (the Holodomor), and other instances of barbarous and state - initiated periods of atrocity during the century were enormous historical evils that must be confronted honestly and fully if humanity is to hope to avoid such catastrophes in the future. That is the premise of this Elements volume. The Element poses the question: how can humanity grow from confronting this history ...