The "problem of God" is not God's problem, it is humanity's problem. Why is it a problem?-or perhaps better put, how is it a problem? This book addresses this double issue by asking three questions. Why and how does religion exist in the first place as a construct and what is it all about? What are some of the particulars, from antiquity to the present, across a panoply of cultures and civilizations, regarding how diverse human groups have wondered and worried about divinity? To what extent, while this is a theological ...
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The "problem of God" is not God's problem, it is humanity's problem. Why is it a problem?-or perhaps better put, how is it a problem? This book addresses this double issue by asking three questions. Why and how does religion exist in the first place as a construct and what is it all about? What are some of the particulars, from antiquity to the present, across a panoply of cultures and civilizations, regarding how diverse human groups have wondered and worried about divinity? To what extent, while this is a theological narrative-exploring what humans have thought about what God (theos in Greek) is-is it actually an anthropological narrative: what are humans (anthropos in Greek) as a species? We are rational and irrational, guided by our minds and our hearts; we are supremely creative and incomparably destructive; our sense of obligation to forces beyond us with their own creative and destructive capabilities contends with our desire to be free of that sense of obligation-but then burdened with the responsibility of such freedom.
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