Book cover for Theological Theodicy by Daniel Castelo

Theological Theodicy

2012 Released
116 Pages
2-3 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Cascade BooksISBN 9781621893134

The question of God's relationship to evil is a long-running one in the history of Christianity, and the term often deployed for this task has been theodicy. The way theodicy has historically been pursued, however, has been problematic on a number of counts. Most significantly, these efforts have generally been insufficiently theological. This work hopes to subvert and reconfigure the theodical task in a way that can be accessible to nonspecialists. Overall, the book hopes to cast the "god" of theodicy as the triune God of Christian confession, a move that shapes and alters distinctly all that follows in what has traditionally been considered a philosophical matter.

Daniel Castelo

Daniel Castelo (PhD, Duke University) is associate dean for academic formation and the William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. He previously taught at Seattle Pacific University. He received a 2011 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise for his book The Apathetic God: Exploring the Contemporary Relevance of Divine Impassability and has written a number of other books, including Pentecostalism as a Christian Mystical Tradition.

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