Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:

A Mormon Theodicy: Jacob and the Problem of Evil

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Published:
6/12/2015
Specs:
Digest / 5.25" x 8.25"
32 pages Saddle-stitched
Category:
Religion
Tags:
apologetics, evil, lds, mormon, Mormonism, theodicy

Lehi’s son Jacob was troubled by a great theological mystery of his and our day — the problem of evil. If God is both all good and all-powerful, how is it possible for the world to be so full of human and natural evils? Jacob was able to elicit from the Lord responses to the question of why He permits evil to flourish in this world. The Lord elucidates the perennial problem of evil for Jacob and us in three distinct genres and at three different levels of abstraction: at a metaphysical level in a philosophical patriarchal blessing, at a concrete level in the history of the emerging Nephite political economy, and in the Allegory of the Olive Tree.

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