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Ordets hyggda i Babel, Alexandria, Hippo och Lissabon: Om teodicén som hermeneutisk metod

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Author

  • Jesper Svartvik

Summary, in English

We are constantly reminded of the problem of evil. There are a number of models to cope with theodicy, but the problem with most of them is that, in different ways, they tend to legitimate evil and accuse the victims. In this article it is suggested that theodicy may serve as a hermeneutical key when reading often marginalised or misunderstood text belonging to the Jewish and Christian traditions. This approach is applied to three different textual corpora: Rabbinic literature, so-called Gnostic texts, and the writings of Augustine. Read in this way, these texts offer us an insight into the authors' theological priorities. All of them repudiate simplistic explanations which accuse those wo have been suffering from misfortune.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

29-39

Publication/Series

Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift

Volume

81

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, Gleerups Utbildning AB

Topic

  • Religious Studies

Keywords

  • original sin
  • Augustine
  • Gnosticism
  • Theodicy
  • Rabbinic Judaism

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0039-6761