Book Summary
This paperback edition of Creation and the Persistence of Evil brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. 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.
Book Details
| Book Name | Creation And The Persistence Of Evil: The Jewish Drama Of Divine Omnipotence |
| Author | Jon Douglas Levenson |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press (Nov 1994) |
| ISBN | 9780691029504 |
| Pages | 200 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1551 |