Fall Seminar 2021
The Theodicy Issue:
Reconciling the Realities of God and Evil
If ‘God is great’ and ‘God is good,’ why are evil and suffering so pervasive in this world?
Course Synopsis
This course examines the problem of God and evil through three correlative means – Biblical theology, philosophy, and literary art – and in the process we address issues such as…
- What are the sources of suffering?
- Is the problem of God and evil evidence for atheism?
- The nature of good and evil.
- The irony of human freedom.
- What about natural disasters that kill innocent people?
- Suffering in the Bible.
- Why does God allow evil and suffering?
- Why didn’t God create a perfect world without sin and suffering?
- Suffering as a pathway to grace and redemption.
Supplemental Readings
Philip Yancey, Where Is God When It Hurts? Anniversary Edition (Zondervan, 2002)
C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (HarperSanFrancisco, 1961)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Ballantine Books, 1
Details & Registration
Instructor:
Dr. Jefrey Breshears
Dates and Time:
Wednesdays, Aug 18 – Nov 3,
7:00 – 8:30 PM
Registration:
$60 or $100 per couple
Location:
Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, Room 108
(Note: This course is available in-person and/or via Zoom.)
Note on the Instructor: Dr. Jefrey Breshears is an author, historian, a former university
professor, and the founder and president of The Areopagus, a Christian education ministry in the
Atlanta area.