Suffering & Evil Early Chr Thought

Nonna Verna Harrison (PhD, Graduate Theological Union), an experienced patristics scholar, is the author of several books, including God's Many-Splendored Image. She lives in Chatsworth, California.David G. Hunter (PhD, University of Notre Dame) holds the Cottrill-Rolfes Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. He coedited The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies.

• ContentsPreface by David G. HunterIntroduction by Nonna Verna Harrison1. An Overview of Patristic TheodiciesPaul L. Gavrilyuk2. Theodicy in Apocalyptic Thought: From Ancient Visions to (Post)Modern NightmaresJohn W. Martens3. The Suffering of Martyrdom: Greek Perspectives in the Fourth and Fifth CenturiesJames C. Skedros4. Learning through Experience: The Pedagogy of Suffering and Death in IrenaeusJohn Behr5. The Enemies of God: Demons and the Persecuting Emperors in LactantiusDennis P. Quinn6. Christus Victor in the Work of Ephrem, Narsai, and Jacob of SerugGary A. Anderson7. Greek Patristic Perspectives on the Origins of Social InjusticeNonna Verna Harrison8. Sympathetic Philosophy: The Christian Response to Suffering according to John Chrysostom's Commentary on JobDouglas Finn9. John Chrysostom on the Man Born Blind (John 9)Nonna Verna Harrison10. The Deaths of Macrina and Monica in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina and Augustine's Confessions: The Female Philosopher and the Problem of Christian GriefRegina L. Walton11. Evil, Suffering, and Embodiment in AugustineDavid G. Hunter12. Theodore of Mopsuestia and the Pedagogy of DestructionEric Phillips13. The Word and His Flesh: Human Weakness and the Identity of Jesus in Greek Patristic ChristologyBrian E. Daley, SJ14. Suffering Impassibly: Christ's Passion in Cyril of Alexandria's SoteriologyJ. Warren Smith15. "The Impassible Suffers"Kallistos Ware, Metropolitan of DiokleiaIndexes