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Eleonore Stump explores the role and value of suffering in human life by addressing the problem of evil in Christian ethics, the role of relationships in human flourishing, and the question of what constitutes one's true self.
List of contents
- 1: A Largely Unremarked Part of the Problem of Evil: The Problem of Mourning and the Felix Culpa View
- 2: Life After Death: The Notion of the True Self
- 3: Worship: The True Self and Thriving
- 4: Union with God: The True Self and the Desires of the Heart
- 5: The Image of God: The Perfection of the True Self
- 6: An Excursus: Knowledge and Narrative
- 7: The Love of God: The Narrative
- 8: The Nature of a Defense
- 9: The Defense of the Felix Culpa View
About the author
Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (Routledge, 2003), Wandering in Darkness (OUP, 2010), and Atonement (OUP, 2018). She has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009), and the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018). She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division; and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Summary
Eleonore Stump explores the role and value of suffering in human life by addressing the problem of evil in Christian ethics, the role of relationships in human flourishing, and the question of what constitutes one's true self.
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Eleonore Stump's The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning provides shining examples of logical rigor, clarity of argument, compassionate depictions of suffering, and a painstaking defense of the power of narrative...Reading The Image of God, one finds analytic precision in equal measure with poetry, heart, and devotion.
