Beyond Theodicy » (1st Edition)

Efforts to resolve the goodness of God and the existence of evil extend back to the ancient world, but the destruction of two World Wars and the Holocaust have spurred a particular urgency to the project in the Western world. Pinnock (religion, Trinity U.) explores the works of four post-Holocaust thinkers who reject such a project: the existentialist religious thinkers Gabriel Marcel and Martin Buber and the Marxian- influenced religious thinkers Ernst Bloch and Johann Baptist Metz. She emphasizes the similarities between the Jewish and Catholic figures with common intellectual influences and the differences between the writers of the same faiths. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR