Evil and the Justice of God, N.T. Wright
Evil and the Justice of God, N.T. Wright
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Evil and the Justice of God

Author: N.T. Wright

Narrator: N.T. Wright

Unabridged: 4 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2007

Synopsis

With every earthquake and war, understanding the nature of evil and our response to it becomes more urgent. Evil is no longer the concern just of ministers and theologians but also of politicians and the media. // We hear of child abuse, ethnic cleansing, AIDS, torture and terrorism, and rightfully we are shocked. But, N. T. Wright says, we should not be surprised. For too long we have naively believed in the modern idea of human progress. In contrast, postmodern thinkers have rightly argued that evil is real, powerful and important, but they give no real clue as to what we should do about it. // In fact, evil is more serious than either our culture or our theology has supposed. How then might Jesus' death be the culmination of the Old Testament solution to evil but on a wider and deeper scale than most imagine? Can we possibly envision a world in which we are delivered from evil? How might we work toward such a future through prayer and justice in the present? // These are the powerful and pressing themes that N. T. Wright addresses in this book that is at once timely and timeless.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melora on November 22, 2015

Perhaps this is a subject on which writing a satisfying book is just intrinsically difficult. Maybe impossible. At any rate, Wright, whose work I generally really like, does Not solve the Problem of Evil here. Just in case you thought he might have. Looking at the “problem of evil,” from a Christian......more

Goodreads review by Adam on August 12, 2011

Short review: Wright's response to the problem of evil feels a bit like a summary of his other books with an excellent chapter on forgiveness. I probably have read too many books by Wright in a short period of time, but this felt like a lot of re-treading of the same ground. In some ways I wish the......more

Goodreads review by Brenton on January 21, 2021

A smart, tight study. This is my second time reading this book. It was more satisfying this time as I am reading it alongside a more technical, philosophical, and theological book on evil and justice, Mark S.M. Scott, Pathways in Theodicy: An Introduction to the Problem of Evil (2015). Scott makes u......more

Goodreads review by Jedidiah on August 05, 2022

A book which I expected to be on Hell was actually about the victory of Christ, the nature of evil, and the Christian call to forgiveness. A welcome surprise!......more

Goodreads review by Josh on September 26, 2020

This is Wright's hidden gem. Talk about conveying complex themes through the vernacular! What is so refreshingly potent about this book, is that from the get go, Wright acknowledges that evil is not something that we can simply answer for with reason and philosophy, it is far to real for that. Wrigh......more

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