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Is God in Charge? Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow , Deconstruction, and Theodicy.
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Martin Warren, Assistant Professor
Department of English, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Abstract
Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow leads the reader to wrestle with how evil, pain, and suffering are explained in theodicy and thus grapples with "the risks and beauties of religious faith." The sparrow of the novel's title refers to the insignificant sparrow of Matthew 10:29-31 that is observed and known by God in its fall to earth. In this speculative fiction novel, the Jesuits hear beautiful music transmitted from another planet and send a mission to meet God's ...
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Was the tsunami an act of God?(Viewpoint)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
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What is God like?
Newspaper article from: Worksop Guardian (Worksop, England)
; What is God like - your competition entries reveal all...Wilkinson of Worksop's Poplars Church... what is God like? And his call for readers to submit their...website at www.worksopguardian.co.uk WHAT is God like, it's hard to say Does he hear me when...
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God's delight.(Faith matters)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; I HAVE ALWAYS been fascinated by the phrase the Lord make his face shine upon you. God's blessing, God's protection, God's peace, God's grace all part of that same benediction--are great goods, and if I had to choose between...
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The God Who Provides: Biblical Images of Divine Nourishment.(Book Review)
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One God. (Christian theology of monotheism)
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; ...most people in the United States believe in God; most of them attend the church of their...make the headlines. But why? If belief in God is established so widely, why treat it as...typically feel that this common belief in God is not what it could or should be. Is it...
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How do you size God? As a doctrine, "Trinity" expresses perfectly the nature of God by refusing to explain it.
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record
; ...Psalm 29; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17 How big is God? If you listen to Isaiah, God stands so high his robe overflows the temple. Big! Someone calculated this made God 348.5 metres tall. But Isaiah calculated that he was...
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God's holiness.(God as holy versus God as love)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...friend directly: Do Christians believe that God is holy? My friend was initially taken aback...Revelation that emphasize the holiness of God. She recalled the passage in the Lord's Prayer where we indicate that God's name is hallowed. What is the rabbi really...
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Who God is.(BACK BURNER)
Magazine article from: Catholic New Times
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The Secret Life of God.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight
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God happens: the timeliness of the Triune God. (involvement of eternal God in the temporal affairs of humans)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
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