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Modern controversiality and non-controversiality of the idea on God at work in nature and history
Srđan Vrcan
Abstract
This work deals with the issue of modern controversiality and non-controversiality of the idea on God at work in nature and history, by projecting it to the background which, at the one end, is made of massive natural disasters with tragic consequences for humans, and at the other end, with social and historical movements having even more tragic human consequences, as this issue opens, as a rule, the issue of God's responsibility for random human casualties. The author sets forth two possible solutions to this problem, beyond the issue of the alleged God's responsibility, either in the form of God's anger toward the human race, or in the form of God's punishment for human sins. He primarily emphasises that, within the framework of considerations about a Christian God, who embodied himself in the Christ, it is very difficult to make considerations in terms of a mono-creator and a panta-creator, a master and a power-holder of everything there is, just as his relation to humans and the human world can hardly be considered in meaningful frameworks of what is generally understood by the Greek verb (to rule, command, be superior, have subjects).
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Publication date:
30.12.2005.
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