Theology
Ingolf U. Dalferth
Malum
Theologische Hermeneutik des Bösen
[Malum. A Theological Hermeneutics of Evil.]
2008; unchanged student edition; 2010. XV, 593 pages.
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Published in German.
The break-in of evil in their life has always caused persons to turn to the divine, to gods or to a god in order to reorientate their life. Ingolf U. Dalferth studies the complexity of this procedure in three thought processes which deal with the central concepts in the Christian understanding of malum as privation (a lack of good), as evil-doing and as a lack of faith. In doing so, he provides a detailed discussion of theodicy theories, the argument from freedom and the religious turn to God, in which the author explores the traces of the discovery of God's goodness, justness and love in connection with the malum experiences in ancient mythology and biblical traditions.