Grains of Wheat - Suffering and Biblical Narratives

This book contains detailed examinations of seven biblical narratives that depict a possible world in which there is a good for suffering human beings that outweighs their suffering and that could not be gotten without the suffering, not even in a world without the Fall.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The Story of Job: Suffering and the Second-Personal


• 2: The Story of Samson: Self-Destroying Evil


• 3: The Story of Abraham: The Desires of the Heart


• 4: The Story of Mary of Bethany: Heartbrokenness and Shame


• 5: The Temptations of Christ


• 6: The Love of God and Its Story


• 7: Suffering and Flourishing: Ecclesiastes


• 8: A Final Reflection: The Mirror of Evil

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 (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), Atonement (2018), and The Image of God. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022). 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 American Philosophical Association, Central Division; and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Summary

This book contains detailed examinations of seven biblical narratives that depict a possible world in which there is a good for suffering human beings that outweighs their suffering and that could not be gotten without the suffering, not even in a world without the Fall.

Product details

• Authors: Stump , Stump, Eleonore Stump, Eleonore (Robert J. Henle Stump, Stump Eleonore
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9780192871190
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287119-0
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christianity, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis