Wandering in Darkness
Narrative and the Problem of Suffering
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 September 2010
- ISBN 9780199277421
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages690 pages
- Size 254x181x43 mm
- Weight 1379 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Virtually no one would deny the extent and intensity of suffering in the world. Can one also consistently hold that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? In Wandering in Darkness, Eleonore Stump argues that the difficult questions raised by the problem of suffering can be considered best in the context of biblical narratives.
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Only the most naïve or tendentious among us would deny the extent and intensity of suffering in the world. Can one hold, consistently with the common view of suffering in the world, that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? This book argues that one can.
Wandering in Darkness first presents the moral psychology and value theory within which one typical traditional theodicy, namely, that of Thomas Aquinas, is embedded. It explicates Aquinas's account of the good for human beings, including the nature of love and union among persons. Eleonore Stump also makes use of developments in neurobiology and developmental psychology to illuminate the nature of such union.
Stump then turns to an examination of narratives. In a methodological section focused on epistemological issues, the book uses recent research involving autism spectrum disorder to argue that some philosophical problems are best considered in the context of narratives. Using the methodology argued for, the book gives detailed, innovative exegeses of the stories of Job, Samson, Abraham and Isaac, and Mary of Bethany.
In the context of these stories and against the backdrop of Aquinas's other views, Stump presents Aquinas's own theodicy, and shows that Aquinas's theodicy gives a powerful explanation for God's allowing suffering. She concludes by arguing that this explanation constitutes a consistent and cogent defense for the problem of suffering.
Eleanore Stump has written a magnificent book. ... It gives us a deeply insightful account of the nature of love, as desire for the good of the beloved and for union with the beloved
Table of Contents:
Incipit
Part I: The Nature of the Project
Suffering, Theodicy, and Defense
Philosophy and Narrative
Narrative as a Means of Knowledge: Francis and Dominic
Narrative and the Knowledge of Persons
Part II: The World at Large: Love and Loneliness
The Nature of Love
Union, Presence, and Omnipresence
Willed Loneliness
Other-worldly Redemption
Part III: The World of the Stories: Suffering in Particular
The Story of Job: Suffering and the Second-personal
The Story of Samson: Self-Destroying Evil
The Story of Abraham: The Desires of the Heart
The Story of Mary of Bethany: Heartbrokenness and Shame
Part IV: Other-worldly Theodicy: What We Care About in a Defense
Theodicy in Another World
What We Care About: the Desires of the Heart
The Defense of the Defense: Suffering, Flourishing, and the Desires of the Heart
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