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The Innocence of God: Does God Ordain Evil?  [Book]

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The horrors of the 20th century demonstrate the failure of secular and religious ideologies to answer the important questions of life. Is this God's doing or is he absent, indifferent, or nonexistent? Does our experience of history and the furious battering of people by nature leave us in an intellectually and morally vacant universe? What, in the face of human tragedy, are sensible answers about life, death, and the existence and character of God? Like the knight in The Seventh Seal, surrounded by Black Plague, do we play chess against the Grim Reaper only to gain time?

The manner in which religious and biblical texts are applied often leaves us with an unjust and irrational God, leading to ideas of alienation and estrangement. The world is manifestly unjust, the human condition essentially tragic. Many believe they can endure this only by abandoning reason and religion, a choice between arrogance and resignation.

Yet the deepest concerns of humanity persist.

Instead of blaming God, or his absence, The Innocence of God presents a startling catalyst for thoughtful dialogue. The God of Judaism and Christianity is not accused of immoral sovereignty or of divine weakness. He works, and invites us to work, against the flow of history with moral clarity and passion to repair in time a damaged world, a world he deeply loves.