Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering

by Eleonore Stump

Book Overview

Only the most naive or tendentious among us would deny the extent and intensity of suffering in the world. Can one hold, consistently with the common view of suffering in the world, that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? This book argues that one can.

Wandering in Darkness first presents the moral psychology and value theory within which one typical traditional theodicy, namely, that of Thomas Aquinas, is embedded. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199659303
• ISBN13: 9780199659302
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.8" x 9.6"