TY  - GEN
T1  - The prince of this world
A1  - Kotsko, Adam
LA  - English
PP  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn951094509
AB  - The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is all-good, God is all-powerful, and evil happens. The Prince of This World traces the story of one of the most influential attempts to square this circle: the offloading of responsibility for evil onto one of God's rebellious creatures. In this striking reexamination, the devil's story is bitterly ironic, full of tragic reversals. He emerges as a theological symbol who helps oppressed communities cope with the trauma of unjust persecution, torture, and death at the hands of political authorities and eventually becomes a vehicle to justify oppression at the hands of Christian rulers. And he evolves alongside the biblical God, who at first presents himself as the liberator of the oppressed but ends up a cruel ruler who delights in the infliction of suffering on his friends and enemies alike. In other words, this is the story of how God becomes the devil-a devil who remains with us in our ostensibly secular age.
CN  - BT982
SN  - 9781503600218
SN  - 1503600211
SN  - 9780804799683
SN  - 0804799687
SN  - 9781503600201
SN  - 1503600203
KW  - Devil : Christianity : History of doctrines.
KW  - Good and evil : Religious aspects : Christianity.
KW  - RELIGION : Christian Theology : Angelology & Demonology.
KW  - Good and evil : Religious aspects : Christianity
ER  -