Creation and the Persistence of Evil
, by Levenson, Jon D.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780691029504 | 0691029504
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/29/1994
This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine omnipotence, Jon Levenson defines God's authorship of the world as a consequence of his victory in his struggle with evil. He traces a flexible conception of God to the earliest Hebrew sources, arguing, for example, that Genesis 1 does not describe the banishment of evil but the attempt to contain the menace of evil in the world, a struggle that continues today.