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100	1	0	_aTheobald, Christoph _eauthor
245	0	0	_aResisting Evil
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520			_aIn relation to the field of inquiry concerning classical theodicy, this article reverses the perspective in questioning the forces that humanity disposes of in its spiritual combat against evil. The argument is developed in four parts. The first part limits the question by recalling how one approaches it in the history of ideas and, especially, how the experience of evil-misfortunes resurrected sources that were too often hidden by a concept of spiritual combat unilaterally at grips with moral evil and sin. The second part is concerned with the forms of common resistances to the different religious or spiritual currents of humanity. A hermeneutical approach allows one to begin in an “ecumenical” attitude, appropriate to the perspective of a common resistance to evil, which brings up the question of the ultimate depth of our spiritual resources. It is with this background that one could think of, on the third level, the Christian conception of resistance to evil as a way of giving existence to God in the middle of our combats. The last part confronts the tenacity of an irreducible suffering, tied in to man’s very existence, which only the attitude of abandonment succeeds in integrating into the theological perspective of beatitude.
786	0		_nRecherches de Science Religieuse | Volume 90 | 1 | 2002-03-01 | p. 87-120 | 0034-1258
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-recherches-de-science-religieuse-2002-1-page-87?lang=en
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