"It is hubris to claim answers to unanswerable questions. Such questions, however--as part of their burden and worth--must still be asked, investigated, and contemplated. How there can be a loving, all-powerful God and a world stymied by suffering and evil is one of the unanswerable questions we must all struggle to answer, even as our responses are closer to gasps, silences, and further questions. More importantly, how and whether one a ..."
"It is hubris to claim answers to unanswerable questions. Such questions, however--as part of their burden and worth--must still be asked, investigated, and contemplated. How there can be a loving, all-powerful God and a world stymied by suffering and evil is one of the unanswerable questions we must all struggle to answer, even as our responses are closer to gasps, silences, and further questions. More importantly, how and whether one a ..."
"chapter focuses on Jon Sobrino's Where Is God? Earthquake, Terrorism,
Barbarity, and Hope for his assessment of the value of theodicy from the vantage
point of the poor and oppressed. This aim is akin to my own use oftestimonies of
mass atrocity to gauge a theo- dicy's relevance to such victims. This chapter will
be divided into two main headings: the first will highlight key features of his text
that are helpful for any theodicy w ..."