Deliver Us From Evil Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion

by Eckel, M. David; Herling, Bradley L.

• ISBN13: 9780826499677
• ISBN10: 0826499678
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Evil is a problem that will not go away. For some it is an inescapable fact of the human condition. For others "evil" is a term that should only be used to name the most horrible of crimes. This volume collects the results of a two-year deliberation withi

Author Biography

M. David Eckel is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University and Director of the Institute for Philosophy of Religion. His publications include Jnanagarbha's Commentary on the Distinction between the Two Truths (1987), To See the Buddha: A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness (1994), and Understanding Buddhism (2003). Bradley L. Herling is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Marymount Manhattan College. He received a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Boston University and is the author of The German Gita: Hermeneutics and Discipline in the German Reception of Indian Thought, 1778-1831 (2006) and A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion (2007).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Evil and the Religious Imagination
Bottom of the Universe: Dante and Evil	p. 13
The Three Faces of Satan in Islam	p. 28
Evil, Motherhood, and the Hindu Goddess Kali	p. 44
The Predicament of Evil: The Case of Dorje Shukden	p. 57
Awakening to Satanic Conspiracy: Rosemary's Baby and the Cult Next Door	p. 75
Philosophical Responses to Evil
Evil and Fault in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur	p. 89
The Abuse of Evil	p. 100
Evil, Reciprocity, and Rights	p. 115
How Banal Is Evil?	p. 130
Evil as Privation: Seeing Darkness, Hearing Silence	p. 149
Deliver Us from Evil
"For Your Own Good": Suffering and Evil in God's Plan according to One Hindu Theologian	p. 169
Can Evil Be Redeemed? Unorthodox Tensions in Eastern Orthodox Theology	p. 186
Desire: Between Good and Evil	p. 207
Evil: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst	p. 222
Index	p. 239
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