It is now time to turn to Eagleton's and iek's discussions of God, evil, and freedom or, in other words, their respective views on human subjectivity. For both of them, as we shall see, the concern for theology is inseparable from a concern about how to understand human existence ...
freedomGod's actiongraceirrationalitymoral evilnonequilibriumthermodynamicsprocess theologyWhitehead's philosophyThis paper develops analogies concerning the evolution of dissipative structures in nonequilibrium thermodynamics to interpret irrational human behavior in which one finds a lack of correspondence between ...
The problem of evil in the Western tradition : from the Book of Job to modern genetics The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition examines how Western thinkers have dealt with the problem of evil, starting in ancient Israel and tracing the ... JF Kelly - 《Horizons》 被引量: 35发表:...
Doing the Master’s Will Ephesians 5:15–16 ESV Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Matthew 24:45–46 ESV “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household,...
“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way, all our present difficulty[8].” –Abraham Lincoln Imagine if: The intelligence of best-practices was implemented against crime, dr...
What we do know is this: evil never wins in the end. Every evil empire of history that rose in prominence and power eventually fell in ruin. Our sovereign God knows what he’s doing. And he will have the last word. So when the squeaky wheels of worry, doubt, or fear begin to sp...
“The tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on ...
and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, he waged an openly spiritual campaign against communism, insisting that religious freedom was the bedrock of personal liberty. "The source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual," he said in his Evil Empire address. "And because...
In Scripture, we are freely forgiven of all our sins, past, present, and future, completely and only by the grace of God. We are, however, called upon to obey God so that we might enjoy the freedom from sin that He wants for us. Sin injects us with toxins that further enslave us...
This was not just borne by Jesus on the Cross. He carried it into the Tomb. And then, the stone was rolled over the entrance. The door was slammed shut. All sorrow, evil, injustice, and suffering were brought into the Tomb. There’s no back door, no easy exit. The judgment of sin...