Fred Berthold
Monday 9:30 – 11:30 AM
January 9 through February 27, 2006
Kendal @ Hanover Card Rm.
The course will examine efforts by Christian theologians to solve "the problem of evil." Can we believe in the Christian God when the world includes so many grievous evils? The so-called "free will defense" is examined and found wanting. A revised free-will defense is offered, as well as needed revisions in our understanding of the nature of God and of God’s relation to the world.
FRED BERTHOLD holds degrees from Dartmouth (A.B.), Chicago Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion). He was Kelsey Professor of Religion at Dartmouth, First Dean of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, is Ordained U.C.C. Clergy and author of Basic Sources of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, The Fear of God, God, Evil and Human Learning and numerous articles. He is the recipient of the Danforth Teaching Award for excellence of teaching.
