Hauptseminar: C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

 

Teacher: William J. Hoye

Office hour: Di 15.00 - 15.30 Uhr

Zuordnung zu Studiengängen u. Teilgebieten im Fachbereich Katholische Theologie:

Zuordnung zu Studiengängen u. Teilgebieten im Fach Anglistik:

 

Time: Monday 4:14 -6:00PM

Room: Hü 2.69 (Hüfferstift)

Begin: 26. April 2004

Belegnummer: 021036

 

 

Commentary:

The existence of suffering in a world created by a good and almighty God -- "the problem of pain" -- is a fundamental theological dilemma, and perhaps the most serious objection to the Christian religion. C. S. Lewis attempts to think through a Christian understanding of suffering. "God wispers to us in our pleasues, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world", he concludes. Some of the topics of individual chapters are divine omnipotence, divine goodness, human wickedness, the fall of man, hell, animal pain, and heaven.
"Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way." The New York Times Book Review  

 

 

Bedingungen für den Erwerb eines Leistungsnachweises:

A two-part written test on the text (tentatively during the last week in May and at the end of the semester) in addition to a book review (a list of possible books will be distributed).  

Bedingungen für den Erwerb eines qualifizierten Studiennachweises:

A two-part written test on the text (tentatively during the last week in May and at the end of the semester).

 

Text: C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, San Francisco: Harper 2001, ca. EUR 9 (also published in other editions)

 

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