Gerizim
Gerizim A mountain in
Samaria where
Jotham spoke a
parable (Judg. 9: 7) and which was a focus for
Samaritan worship and therefore an alternative to Jerusalem (John 4: 20). Their own temple had been destroyed by John Hyrcanus in 128 BCE.
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Evil and human nature.
Magazine article from: The Monist; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...theological problem of evil, though it is customary...distinguish between moral evils and natural evils...Since the existence of evils of both sorts is usually...indubitable, the problem of evil is then construed...reserve the term `evil' for what is morally...that there are moral ...
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The evils that women endure and inflict.(Out of teh Depths: Women's Experience of Evil and Salvation)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...The Evil Women Do." Such evil is most often confined to the...For poor women, good and evil, sin and salvation are all...naked. By publicly naming the "evil embedded in families, homes...and theologies ... as the evils women endure," Gebara sets...
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Evil and evildoers. (Faith matters).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 11/14/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...is lost if we describe he terrorists as evil," a friend of mine argued recently...he says, when we name our enemies as evil. Instead, we should state what we feel...properties such as moral goodness or moral evil. If we drop words like "good" and...
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HORRENDOUS EVILS AND THE GOODNESS OF GOD.(Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...suffering to defeat the evil they experience. A...horrendousness of the evil human beings are sometimes...She defines horrendous evils as "evils the participation...compossibility of God and evil (even the evils of entrenched horrors...
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Christ and evils: Assessing an aspect of Marilyn McCord Adams's theodicy
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...problem of reconciling the evils of the world with the...Aquinas was well aware that evil constitutes a prima facie...which in Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God...she concentrates not on evil-in-general, but on what she calls "horrendous evils"-massive, overwhelming...
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Resident Evil Franchise Tops $200 Million Worldwide; Award-Winning Game Spawns Sequels, Feature Film, Action Figures and Comic Series.
Business Wire; 12/17/1997; 700+ words
; ...Entertainment, Inc. today announced that Resident Evil and its licensed properties have generated revenue...date, more than 4 million units of Resident Evil (known as Biohazard in Japan) and Resident Evil: Director's Cut have been sold worldwide...
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Evil and/or/as the Good: Omnicentrism, Intersubjectivity, and Value Paradox in Tiantai Buddhist Thought.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Does Mahayana Buddhism have a problem with evil? Buddhism generally focuses on ignorance (a problem of understanding) rather than evil (Abrahamic sin is more a problem of the...have a lot to say about the three roots of evil, which need to be transformed into their...
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Evil: It surrounds our world
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 3/21/2007; 700+ words
; Senior, Western Dubuque High School Evil. When I hear this word, I cannot seem to think...daisies in a wide-open field or people smiling. Evil makes me shiver. Everywhere I look evil lingers. Evil does not hide behind the tree; it...
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Proclus. On the Existence of Evils.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...importance whether one speaks of evil or of evils, but for the Neoplatonic...prime matter is absolute evil and the cause of all evils in the physical, as well...there existed no absolute evil at all, but only individual evils. With Plotinus and against...
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Does evil have a cause? Augustine's perplexity and Thomas's answer.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...have a far smaller share of good than of evil, and while God must be held to be the...other factors than God as cause of the evil."(1) Rightly celebrated, this passage...reflection in Western thought on the cause of evil. In contrast to traditional mythology...
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Evil
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...to a universal "problem of evil." But dukkha, "suffering, unsatisfactoriness" is not evil. Different traditions define different things as evils (as they do goods), and...responses. Thinking about evil is usually accompanied by...
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evil eye
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
evil eye Belief in the evil eye — that a human being can cause injury or death through...pre-literate societies. The exact nature of the damage which the evil eye is supposed to cause varies between cultures, but children and...
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evil
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...x2026;Let us do evil, that good may come...16th century. of two evils, choose the least a statement...take the least of the evils,’ and Latin...Officiis , ‘of evils choose the least.’ See also axis of evil , a great book is a great...
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Evil Spirits
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Evil Spirits According to occultist and Spiritualist philosophy, evil spirits do exist. There are many intelligent entities...be of human origin and may not be benevolent. But the evil spirits commonly spoken of are the spirits of bad people...
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Evil Eye
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Evil Eye Belief in the malevolent effects of the evil eye is ancient and universal. A common form of this belief...a cast, or even cataracts were thought to be signs of an evil eye. Others attributed the evil eye to conscious malice on...
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