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Both Red and Green but Religiously Right: Coping with Evil in a Religion of Nature

Both Red and Green but Religiously Right: Coping with Evil in a Religion of Nature Donald A. Crosby / Colorado State University The problem of evil is not an accidental difficulty for religion; it is the starting-point from which the search that sometimes leads to religion begins. --Mary Midgley1 he problem of evil of which Mary Midgley speaks is not just the relatively narrow theoretical one familiar to us in the West of how conceptually to reconcile an alleged absolute goodness and power of God with the rampant evil in the world, but the much broader existential one, applicable everywhere, of how to interpret, respond to, and cope with the presence and power of evil in daily life. It is the problem of how to find courage and strength in the face of the relentless perils, sufferings, and losses experienced on an everyday basis by the world's creatures, and with full awareness of the threat of abrupt calamities that can wreak havoc in the natural world and pose dire threats to human well-being. This existential problem of evil is also posed by the struggle with dark propensities to evil that lurk within every human breast, are entrenched in the institutions of human societies, and can and frequently do cause incalculable and pervasive harm http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Theology & Philosophy University of Illinois Press

Both Red and Green but Religiously Right: Coping with Evil in a Religion of Nature

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Donald A. Crosby / Colorado State University The problem of evil is not an accidental difficulty for religion; it is the starting-point from which the search that sometimes leads to religion begins. --Mary Midgley1 he problem of evil of which Mary Midgley speaks is not just the relatively narrow theoretical one familiar to us in the West of how conceptually to reconcile an alleged absolute goodness and power of God with the rampant evil in the world, but the much broader existential one, applicable everywhere, of how to interpret, respond to, and cope with the presence and power of evil in daily life. It is the problem of how to find courage and strength in the face of the relentless perils, sufferings, and losses experienced on an everyday basis by the world's creatures, and with full awareness of the threat of abrupt calamities that can wreak havoc in the natural world and pose dire threats to human well-being. This existential problem of evil is also posed by the struggle with dark propensities to evil that lurk within every human breast, are entrenched in the institutions of human societies, and can and frequently do cause incalculable and pervasive harm

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American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press

Published: Jul 14, 2010

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