Title: God and evil : a unified theodicy/theology/philosophy /
Authors: Birnbaum, David.
Publisher: Ktav Pub. House,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Theodicy.; Good and evil.
Contents: Pt. 1: Theodicy, theology, intellectuality -- Theodicy/theology -- Theodicy in focus -- Theodicy in the Jewish tradition -- Other theodicies -- General intellectual thrust of Judaism -- Leaps of faith -- Rational morality between man and God -- Pt. 2: The "quest for potential" unified formulation -- Approach to core theodicy resolution -- "Quest for potential" core theodicy -- Eternal origins -- The unified formulation: outline summary -- The epicenter of the divine -- The underlying dynamic -- Duality of two major dynamics -- Tree of life/tree of knowledge -- Inexorability -- Unleashed evil -- Evil and polarity -- Evil and necessity -- The removal of evil -- Universal laws -- Finite + -- Purpose -- Man's ascent/creation -- Common quests -- Man's freedom -- Necessity and freedom -- Fuller freedom -- Man's ascent/knowledge -- Knowledge and freedom -- Privacy, responsibility, and selfhood -- Contraction of divine consciousness -- Increase in evil -- Inviolability -- Pt. 3: Summation and reprise -- Unified formulation: general buttress -- Person to person -- Obscurity/ambiguity of God, etc. -- Man is not alone, but is essentially on his own -- Man of Halachah and the unified formulation -- Unified formulation: wrap-up -- Reprise.