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Dr. Martin Jaffee Engages with the Question: What Can You Say About the “Problem of Evil?”
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Video
Interview Date
6-6-1999
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Abstract
What can you say about the “Problem of Evil?”
Dr. Martin Jaffee discusses the problem of the existence of God even though there is suffering in the world. Jaffee remarks that the problem of evil is “not a problem” for religion, but is only one for theology and philosophers that have created an omnipotent and all good God.
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Martin Jaffee and Alfred Benney. "Dr. Martin Jaffee Engages with the Question: What Can You Say About the “Problem of Evil?”" (1999) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alfred_benney/215/
Playing Time: 3:07 minutes
About the Interviewee:
Dr. Martin Jaffee is the Samuel & Althea Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. He has served on a variety of editorial boards and works in the area of Talmudic and Rabbinic studies. His academic interests include issues in modern Jewish thought, Jewish Mysticism and Jewish cultural history.
About the Interviewer:
Dr. Alfred Benney is a professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. He has a Ph.D in Theology from the Hartford Seminary Foundation and teaches courses in Non-Traditional American Religions and Christian Religious Thought. His research interests include "how people learn"; "the appropriate use of technology in teaching/learning" and "myth as explanatory narrative". He has published work on teaching with technology.