Deliver Us From Evil Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion [Paperback]

Evil is a problem that will not go away. For some it is an inescapable fact of the human condition. For others evil is a term that should only be used to name the most horrible of crimes. Still others think that the worst problem lies with the abuse of the term: using it to vilify a misunderstood enemy. No matter how we approach it, evil is a concept that continues to call out for critical reflection.

This volume collects the results of a two-year deliberation within the Boston University Institute for Philosophy of Religion lecture series, bringing together scholars of religion, literature, and philosophy. Its essays provide a thoughtful, sensitive, and wide-ranging consideration of this challenging problem-and of ways that we might be delivered from it.

M. David Eckel is an Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University, USA, and Director of the Institute for Philosophy of Religion. His publications includeJ?anagarbha's Commentary on the Distinction between the Two Truths(1987),To See the Buddha: A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness(1994), andUnderstanding Buddhism(2003).

Bradley L. Herling is Professor of Religious Studies at Marymount Manhattan College, USA.

Introduction, M. David Eckel (Boston University, USA) and Bradley L. Herling (Marymount Manhattan College, USA)



Part I: Imagining Evil Religiously: East and West



1. Bottom of the Universe: Dante and Evil, Peter Hawkins (Boston University, USA)



2. The Three Faces of Satan in Islam, Eric Ormsby (McGill University, Canada)



3. Evil, Motherhood, and the Hindu Goddess Kali, Rachel Fell McDermott (Barnard College, USA)



4. The Predicament of Evil: The Case of Dorje Shukden, Georges Dreyfus (Williams College, USA)
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