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One of the most perplexing problems facing believers in God is the problem of evil. The words of Epicurus put the point concisely: 'Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?' This is a difficult problem to unpick and it remains an issue...
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Papers presented at the Conference on Christian and Theistic Philosophy held Feb. 25-27, 1988, at the University of Notre Dame. Faith seeks, understanding finds--Augustine's charter for Christian philosophy / Norman Kretzmann -- Justice, mercy, supererogation, and atonement / Richard L. Purtill -- Providence and the problem of evil / Eleonore Stump -- Can anybody in a post-Christian culture rationally believe in the Nicene Creed? / Alan Donagan --...
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The serpent of ancient times was more often associated with positive attributes like healing and eternal life than it was with negative meanings. This groundbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbol of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the creativity of the biblical authors' use of symbols and argues that we must today reexamine our own archetypal conceptions with...
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