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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden question of evil.
1. God and the Origin of Evil: A Contextual Analysis of Alleged Monistic Evidence in the Old Testament
Sammanfattning : This book is dedicated to the study of a problem which Biblical research has regarded a a central aspect of the OT understanding of God, namely, the thesis that the Deity was held to be the immediate author of all evils affecting both the individual and the nation of Israel a a whole. Examination of the exegetical literature dealing with this problem reveals that scholars have thought to find support for this view in passages of two types, in part in texts which explicitly place responsibility for evil with God, and in part in texts which seem to indicate that a demonic element was incorporated into the Deity via a process of identification. LÄS MER
2. Det illojala barnets uppror : Studier kring jan Myrdals självbiografiska texter
Sammanfattning : Jan Myrdal has often been considered a controversial author. During the sixties he was mostly regarded as a political figure, much appreciated by those who shared his political views and even more abhorred by those who did not. LÄS MER
3. Back to the Woods or Into Ourselves? : Kant, Rousseau and the Search for the Essence of Human Nature
Sammanfattning : This thesis contributes to a field of Kant’s practical philosophy that has received renewed attention, namely his moral anthropology. While it is true that Kant, in some of his best-known writings, literally says that the fundamental ground of morality must be pure and thus entirely free from admixture with anthropological principles, he nevertheless admits that these “subjective conditions” in human nature that “either hinder or help people in fulfilling the laws of the metaphysics of morals” make up the foundation of all applied ethics. LÄS MER
4. John Rufus and the World Vision of Anti-Chalcedonian Culture
Sammanfattning : The present study deals with the works of John Rufus, disciple of Peter the Iberian at Gaza. There are three works preserved from him, composed in Greek at the turn of the sixth century, and preserved in Syriac: the Life of Peter the Iberian, the Commemoration of the Death of Theodosius, and the Plerophories. LÄS MER
5. Le paradis perdu et retrouvé : Étude de l'innocence et de la culpabilité dans l'oeuvre d'Albert Camus
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate a recurrent idea that dominates the works of Albert Camus, namely the search for man’s innocence. A study of this notion, however, will to the same extent require an examination of guilt, since the signification of the first depends on the second and since both exist in Camus. LÄS MER