{"title":"Theodicy Provides New Perspectives on God According to 4 Ezra","authors":"J. Rand","doi":"10.2143/ETL.84.1.2030896","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Understanding and explaining the problem of evil and death in this world remains a crucial and difficult theological issue. It is called theodicy which can be defined in a rational (Eichrodt) or a social-religious (Berger) way. The answers lie on a rational-irrational continuum. Selected moments from Old Testament theodicy provide a comparable framework to evaluate 4 Ezra and the occurrence of evil and death as part of the righteous' life on earth according to the New Testament. The answers of God through the angel Uriel on the problem of evil and misfortune of the righteous during the recent age have lead Ezra to come to new insights concerning theodicy, and these insights provide new perspectives on God.","PeriodicalId":42509,"journal":{"name":"Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses","volume":"87 1","pages":"123-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2008-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2143/ETL.84.1.2030896","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Understanding and explaining the problem of evil and death in this world remains a crucial and difficult theological issue. It is called theodicy which can be defined in a rational (Eichrodt) or a social-religious (Berger) way. The answers lie on a rational-irrational continuum. Selected moments from Old Testament theodicy provide a comparable framework to evaluate 4 Ezra and the occurrence of evil and death as part of the righteous' life on earth according to the New Testament. The answers of God through the angel Uriel on the problem of evil and misfortune of the righteous during the recent age have lead Ezra to come to new insights concerning theodicy, and these insights provide new perspectives on God.
期刊介绍：
Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses (ETL), founded in 1924, is a quarterly publication by professors of Theology and Canon Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). Each volume totals ca. 1300 pages. Issues 1 (April) and 4 (December) contain articles, book reviews and chronicles in various languages (English, French, German). Issue 2-3 (September) represents the annual Elenchus Bibliographicus, an extensive bibliography of books and articles that appeared during the preceding year. The bibliography (ca. 15,000 entries) covers the entire field of Theology and Canon Law: History of Theology, History of Religions.
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