The Evils of Theodicy

Download or read book The Evils of Theodicy written by Terrence W. Tilley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-03-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of this book is straightforward: Tilley argues that theodicy as a discourse practice creates evils while theodicists ignore or distort classic texts in the Christian tradition, unwittingly efface genuine evils in their attempts to justify God, and silence the voice of the suffering and the oppressed by writing them out of the theological picture. The result is often a theological legitimation of intolerable social evils.