\nclick on it in the Chapter listing to the right
![](\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/images\/arrow.gif\"){kind=icon}
<\/p>\nTo view any of the sections below
\nclick on it in the Chapter listing to the right<\/p>\n
GENERAL INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n Appositions 10.00 THEODICY\/THEOLOGY<\/p>\n 10.01 Definition 20.00 THEODICY IN FOCUS<\/p>\n 20.01 Problematics 30.00 THEODICY IN THE JEWISH TRADITION<\/p>\n 30.01 Outline 40.00 OTHER THEODICIES<\/p>\n 40.01 Overview 50.00 GENERAL INTELLECTUAL THRUST OF JUDAISM<\/p>\n 50.01 Intellectuality 60.00 LEAPS OF FAITH<\/p>\n 70.00 RATIONAL MORALITY BETWEEN MAN AND GOD<\/p>\n 70.01 The Moral Divine 80.10 APPROACH TO CORE THEODICY RESOLUTION<\/p>\n 80.20 “QUEST FOR POTENTIAL” CORE THEODICY<\/p>\n 80.21 Outline 90.00 ETERNAL ORIGINS<\/p>\n 90.01 Mainstream 99.00 THE UNIFIED FORMULATION: OUTLINE SUMMARY<\/p>\n 100.00 THE EPICENTER OF THE DIVINE<\/p>\n 100.01 The Divine Name 200.00 THE UNDERLYING DYNAMIC<\/p>\n 200.01 General Quest for Potential<\/p>\n 200.01a Natural Order 200.02 Spiritual Quests for Potential<\/p>\n 200.02a Cosmic 200.03 Ultimate Quests for Potential<\/p>\n 200.03a Cosmic 300.10 DUALITY OF TWO MAJOR DYNAMICS<\/p>\n 300.11 Inverse and Dualities 300.20 TREE OF LIFE\/TREE OF KNOWLEDGE<\/p>\n 300.21 Components of 300.30 INEXORABILITY<\/p>\n 300.40 UNLEASHED EVIL<\/p>\n 400.10 EVIL AND POLARITY<\/p>\n 400.11 Introductory 400.20 EVIL AND NECESSITY<\/p>\n 400.30 THE REMOVAL OF EVIL<\/p>\n 400.40 UNIVERSAL LAWS<\/p>\n 500.10 FINITE +<\/p>\n 500.20 PURPOSE<\/p>\n 500.30 MAN’S ASCENT\/CREATION<\/p>\n 500.40 COMMON QUESTS<\/p>\n 600.00 MAN’S FREEDOM<\/p>\n 600.01 Centrality of Concept in Judaism 700.10 NECESSITY AND FREEDOM<\/p>\n 700.20 FULLER FREEDOM<\/p>\n 800.10 MAN’S ASCENT\/KNOWLEDGE<\/p>\n 800.20 KNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM<\/p>\n 800.30 PRIVACY, RESPONSIBILITY AND SELFHOOD<\/p>\n 800.31 Freedom and Privacy 900.10 CONTRACTION OF DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS<\/p>\n 900.11 Building Blocks<\/p>\n 900.11a Freedom and Divine Consciousness 900.12 Grounding<\/p>\n 900.12a Hester Panim<\/em> 900.13 Dynamics of Conflict Resolution<\/p>\n 900.13a Conflict: Divine Presence\/Man’s Freedom 900.14 Summation (of Section 900.10)<\/p>\n 900.14a Divine Attributes 900.20 INCREASE IN EVIL<\/p>\n 900.20a Omnipotence and Omnimercifulness 900.30 INVIOLABILITY<\/p>\n 1010.00 UNIFIED FORMULATION: GENERAL BUTTRESS<\/p>\n 1020.00 PERSON TO PERSON<\/p>\n 1030.00 OBSCURITY\/AMBIGUITY OF GOD, ETC.<\/p>\n 1040.00 MAN IS NOT ALONE, BUT IS ESSENTIALLY ON HIS OWN<\/p>\n 1050.00 MAN OF HALACHAH AND THE UNIFIED FORMULATION<\/p>\n 1060.00 UNIFIED FORMULATION: WRAP-UP<\/p>\n 1070.00 REPRISE<\/p>\n APPENDIX<\/strong><\/p>\n BAL TOSIF<\/em> AND THEOLOGICAL DOGMA<\/p>\n BIFURCATION: PRAYER<\/p>\n NOTES <\/strong><\/p>\n SNAPSHOT BIOGRAPHIES <\/strong><\/p>\n BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n BIBLICAL INDEX GENERAL INDEX <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nForeword
\nTable of Contents
\nGlossary
\nPreface
\nPurpose<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPART I
\nTheodicy, Theology, Intellectuality <\/strong><\/div>\n
\n10.02 Discussion
\n10.03 Nadir and Refinement
\n10.04 Ramifications
\n10.05 Cohesiveness<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n20.02 Holocaust
\n20.03 Observations: The Sliding Scale
\n20.04 Formally Stated
\n20.05 Defining Parameters
\n20.06 Appropriateness<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n30.02 Elaboration<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n40.02 Irenaean Theodicy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n50.02 Inquiry
\n50.03 Geometry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n70.02 Moral Intelligibility and Absoluteness
\n70.03 “Protest Literature”<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPART II
\nThe “Quest for Potential” Unified Formulation<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n80.22 Discussion
\n80.23 Need for Unified Formulation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n90.02 Fault-Line: Gap in Western Philosophical
\nand Scientific Formulations
\n90.03 Partial Exception
\n90.04 Philosophical Terra Incognita<\/p><\/blockquote>\n100<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n100.02 The Primordial Divine
\n100.03 Kabbalistic Parallel
\n100.04 Buttress and Elaboration
\n100.05 Man-and the Quest for Potential
\n100.06 Linkage: Linkage of God’s Potential
\nto Man’s Potential
\n100.07 Focus: Potential and the Mitzvot<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n200<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n200.01b Mortal
\n200.01c Universal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n200.02b Mortal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n200.03b Mortal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n300<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n300.12 Inverses and Polarities<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n300.22 Elaboration on Structure of “Trees”
\n300.23 Shorthand: Symbolism of Eden Parable<\/p><\/blockquote>\n400<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n400.12 Evil and the Jews
\n400.13 Source and Existence of Evil<\/p><\/blockquote>\n500<\/strong><\/div>\n600<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n600.02 Definition of Man’s Freedom
\n600.03 Qualifications and Limitations-Within Freedom<\/p><\/blockquote>\n700<\/strong><\/div>\n800<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n800.32 Privacy and Potential
\n800.33 Freedom and Responsibility\/Selfhood<\/p><\/blockquote>\n900<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n900.11b Conceptualization
\n900.11c Multiple Levels of the Divine
\n900.11d Uniqueness of Divine Knowledge
\n900.11e Pivot of Our Formulation
\n900.11f Parallel of God: Israel to Father: Child<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n900.12b Divine Self-Limitation
\n900.12c Divine Contraction and Tsimtsum<\/em>.
\n900.12d Integration of Divine Hester<\/em>;
\nSelf-Limitation; Contraction
\n900.12e Two Overlapping Paths to Hester<\/em>
\n900.12f Clarification of Biblical Hester<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n900.13b Conflict: Divine Knowledge\/Man’s Freedom
\n900.13c Divine Foreknowledge<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n900.14b Proportionality
\n900.14c Dichotomy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n900.20b Evil and Hester<\/em>
\n900.20c Divine Intervention and Man’s Freedom
\n900.20d Knowledge and Evil
\n900.20e General Providence
\n900.20f The Holocaust<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPART III
\nSummation and Reprise<\/strong><\/div>\n1000<\/strong><\/div>\n
\nSUBJECTIVE VS. OBJECTIVE KEYS TO THE BOOK OF JOB<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n