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The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World - Hardcover
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Theodicy attempts to resolve how a
good God and evil world can coexist. The neo-atheist view in this
debate has dominated recent bestseller lists through books like The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), God Is Not Great (Christopher Hitchens), and The End of Faith
(Samuel Harris). And their popularity illuminates a changing mental
environment wherein people are asking harder questions about divine
goodness. Surprisingly, these books please intelligent design champion
William Dembski, because “They would be unnecessary if Christianity were
not again a live issue.”
Entering the conversation, Dembski’s provocative The End of Christianity
embraces the challenge to formulate a theodicy that is both faithful to
Christian orthodoxy and credible to the new mental environment. He
writes to make peace with three claims: (1) God by wisdom created the
world out of nothing. (2) God exercises particular providence in the
world. (3) All evil in the world ultimately traces back to human sin. In
the process, Dembski brings the reader to a fresh understanding of what
“the end (result) of Christianity” really means: the radical
realignment of our thinking so that we see God’s goodness in creation
despite the distorting effects of sin in our hearts and evil in the
world. The number one philosophical question that confronts the church is not creationism, is not medical ethics, but is the antecedent issue of all these, theodicy, or the problem of evil. How do we confess to believe in a good and all powerful God, and yet accept the problem of evil? (238 pages)
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