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God and Evil
A Unified Theodicy/Theology/Philosophy
David Birnbaum
KTAV
1988
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Chapters
- Title Page
- General Introductions (pps.iii-v)
- Appositions (p.vii)
- Foreword (pps.viii-x)
- Table of Contents
- Glossary (pps.xvii-xviii)
- Preface (p.xix)
- Purpose (pps.xix-xxi)
- PART I: Theodicy, Theology, Intellectuality (pps.1-50)
- 10.00 THEODICY/THEOLOGY (pps.3-9)
- 20.00 THEODICY IN FOCUS (pps.9-16)
- 30.00 THEODICY IN THE JEWISH TRADITION (pps.16-31)
- 40.00 OTHER THEODICIES (p.31)
- 50.00 GENERAL INTELLECTUAL THRUST OF JUDAISM (pps.36-41)
- 60.00 LEAPS OF FAITH
(pps.41-44) - 70.00 RATIONAL MORALITY BETWEEN MAN AND GOD (pps.44-50)
- PART II: The “Quest for Potential” Unified Formulation (pps.51-149)
- 80.10 APPROACH TO CORE THEODICY RESOLUTION (pps.53-54)
- 80.20 “QUEST FOR POTENTIAL” CORE THEODICY (pps.54-56)
- 90.00 ETERNAL ORIGINS (pps.56-60)
- 99.00 THE UNIFIED FORMULATION: OUTLINE SUMMARY (pps.61-64)
- 100.00 THE EPICENTER OF THE DIVINE (pps.64-78)
- 100.01 The Divine Name (pps.64-65)
- 100.02 The Primordial Divine (pps.65-67)
- 100.03 Kabbalistic Parallel (pps.67-69)
- 100.04 Buttress and Elaboration (pps.69-72)
- 100.05 Man—and the Quest for Potential (pps.72-73)
- 100.06 Linkage: Linkage of God’s potential to Man’s Potential (pps.73-74)
- 100.07 Focus: Potential and the ‘Mitzvot’ (pps.75-78)
- 200.00 THE UNDERLYING DYNAMIC (pps.78-82)
- 300.10 DUALITY OF TWO MAJOR DYNAMICS (pps.83-84)
- 300.20 TREE OF LIFE/TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
- 300.30 INEXORABILITY
(pps.87-90) - 300.40 UNLEASHED EVIL (p.91)
- 400.10 EVIL AND POLARITY (pps.91-94)
- 400.20 EVIL AND NECESSITY (pps.94-96)
- 400.30 THE REMOVAL OF EVIL (p.96)
- 400.40 UNIVERSAL LAWS (p.97)
- 500.10 FINITE + (pps.98-99)
- 500.20 PURPOSE (pps.100-103)
- 500.30 MAN’S ASCENT/CREATION
(pps.103-104) - 500.40 COMMON QUESTS (p.104)
- 600.00 MAN’S FREEDOM (p.104)
- 700.10 NECESSITY AND FREEDOM (p.109)
- 700.20 FULLER FREEDOM (pps.110-111)
- 800.10 MAN’S ASCENT / KNOWLEDGE (pps.111-112)
- 800.20 KNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM (pps.112-114)
- 800.30 PRIVACY, RESPONSIBILITY, AND SHELFHOOD (pps.114-115)
- 900.10 CONTRACTION OF DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS (pps.117-118)
- 900.11 Building Blocks (pps.118-124)
- 900.11a Freedom and Divine Consciousness (p.118)
- 900.11b Conceptualization (pps.118-119)
- 900.11c Multiple levels of the Divine (pps.119-121)
- 900.11d Uniqueness of Divine Knowledge (pps.121-122)
- 900.11e Pivot of Our Formulation (pps.122-123)
- 900.11f Parallel of God: Israel to Father: Child (pps.123-124)
- 900.12 Grounding (pps.124-134)
- 900.12a Hester Panim (pps.124-126)
- 900.12b Divine Self-Limitation (pps.126-127)
- 900.12c Divine Contractions and Tsimtsum (pps.127-129)
- 900.12d Integration of Divine Hester; Self-limitation; Contraction (pps.129-131)
- 900.12e Two overlapping Paths to Hester (pps.131-132)
- 900.12f Clarification of Biblical Hester (pps.132-134)
- 900.13 Dynamics of Conflict Resolution (pps.134-138)
- 900.14 Summation (of Section 900.10) (pps.138-141)
- 900.11 Building Blocks (pps.118-124)
- 900.20 INCREASE IN EVIL (p.141)
- 900.30 INVIOLABILITY
(pps.147-149) - PART III: Summation and Reprise (pps.153-167)
- 1010.00 UNIFIED FORMULATION: GENERAL BUTTRESS
(pps.153-155) - 1020.00 PERSON TO PERSON (pps.155-158)
- 1030.00 OBSCURITY / AMBIGUITY OF GOD, ETC. (pps.158-159)
- 1040.00 MAN IS NOT ALONE, BUT ESSENTIALLY ON HIS OWN (pps.159-160)
- 1050.00 MAN OF HALACHAH AND THE UNIFIED FORMULATION (pps.160-163)
- 1060.00 UNIFIED FORMULATION: WRAP-UP (pps.163-165)
- 1070.00 REPRISE (pps.165-167)
- APPENDIX (p.169)
- PRAYER (pps.176-183)
- SNAPSHOT BIOGRAPHIES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- BIBLICAL INDEX
- GENERAL INDEX
- To Order
- Information