The enigma of evil
By: Christos Yannaras ; translated by Norman Russell
Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Brookline, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781935317289
Subjects: Doctrines; Orthodox Eastern Church; Biblical teaching; Good and evil
Work titles: Ainigma tou kakou
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Attempts at conceptual definition; title: Definitions through images; title: The analgesic effect of "natural evil"; title: Attempts at interpreting evil; title: Existence as relation and nonrelation; title: The serpent and the woman; title: How God knows good and evil, and how we know it; title: The established interpretation of the first pages of Genesis; title: The logic of identifying the non-uncreated with the nongood; title: The language of legal/juridical approaches to identifying evil; title: When there is a change in the historical coordinates of the problematics of evil; title: Georges Florovsky's observations on the causality of evil; title: The interpretation of the Christian Gospel in relation to participation in the fact of the church; title: Angels and demons in the Judeo-Christian tradition; title: The absurdity of speaking of "natural evil"; title: Pain as the experience of evil; title: Is death the end of existence?