Facing evil: Evil's many faces

From: Interpretation | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Five Paradigms for Understanding Evil

God saw everything that [God] had made, and indeed, it was very good.

A Genesis 1:31a

A central tenet of the Christian faith is that the world in which human creates abide is a "creation," formed, ordered, and blessed by a creator who has amed it good.1 The earth, our bodies and our passions, our dependency upon one another, our strengths and our vulnerabilities, the complexities of life lived in community with all sorts of creatures-all of this is good.

But the good creation entrusted to human beings for their enjoyment and care is also the creation we ...

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