The Problem of Evil: A Biblical Perspective, by Doug Erlandson

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Why Does God Permit Evil?

A Fresh Approach to an Age-Old Problem

In The Problem of Evil: A Biblical Perspective, Dr. Doug Erlandson takes a fresh approach to a question that has baffled philosophers and theologians for centuries: "If God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good, why does he permit evil?" The attempt to provide an adequate answer to this question is known as "Theodicy."

Drawing on his nearly forty years of teaching and writing on the problem of evil, Erlandson examines the traditional theodicies and shows why they are unable to solve the problem. He then argues that the only way we will understand why God permits evil is if we accept the answer that Scripture gives to the question.

Here's a Preview of What's in the Book

• What's wrong with the freewill defense and other traditional theodicies
• Why a God-centered theodicy is necessary to solving the problem of evil
• Why God's answer to Job is absolutely to the point
• What we can learn from the suffering and death of Christ
• Why we can have full assurance that God will work everything to our good

˃˃˃ What Others Are Saying

Doug does a great job of summarizing in simple language some of the complex issues that philosophers have wrestled with for more than 2,000 years. This is a very helpful book if you are doing serious thinking about the pain and evil in this world. Thoroughly grounded in sound Biblical theology. (Rev. Stu Kerns)

An approach that uses a sensitive mix of philosophy, autobiography and theology to answer one of life's most troubling concepts. (Penn Tomassetti "Penn')

A very practical and helpful study of a very difficult subject. It is written well and is easy to read. (Nick Harris)

˃˃˃ Other Books by Doug Erlandson

How to Think Clearly: A Guide to Critical Thinking

Philosophy Basics: A Jargon-Free Guide for Beginners

The Theory of Knowledge: A Jargon-Free Guide to Epistemology

About the Author

Doug Erlandson was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1946. He received his B.A. from Wheaton College (Ill.) and his doctorate in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. Doug was an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1972-1980 and since 1994 has been an adjunct instructor of philosophy at Southeast Community College in Lincoln.

Doug is the author of 19 books, including the popular Kindle book, How to Think Clearly: A Guide to Critical Thinking; the Jargon-Free Guide Series, including Philosophy Basics: A Jargon-Free Guide for Beginners; Faith Reborn; Spiritual Anorexia: How Contemporary Worship is Starving the Church; Godly Contentment: Kingdom Living in an Age of Economic and Social Uncertainty.

Doug and his wife are co-owners of the online candy store Licorice International, which is located in the Historic Haymarket District in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Kindle Spotlight: "I Bleed Cubbie Blue: My Six Decades as a Cubs Fan"

"I Bleed Cubbie Blue: My Six Decades as a Cubs Fan"
By: Doug Erlandson

SAVE THE DATE FOR THE COUNTDOWN PROMOTION: This book will be available for 99 cents on Monday, February 10th, and the price will increase incrementally through Sunday, February 16th....so get it early!

Why would anyone root for a team that hasn’t been in a World Series since 1945 and hasn’t won one since 1908, has had just 20 winning seasons since 1939, and plays in a ballpark that’s nearly a century old and is falling apart? I Bleed Cubbie Blue, a memoir of one fan’s six-decade love affair with the Chicago Cubs, offers a charming and compelling answer to this burning question.

Combining personal memories and reflections with meticulous research, native Chicagoan Doug Erlandson describes his lifelong affection for a team that has raised but ultimately crushed his hopes countless times, a team to which he remains intensely loyal after nearly sixty years of fandom. Beginning with a description of the first game he attended in 1954 (a loss, of course, to the New York Giants), he weaves highlights from every season from the late-1950s through 2012 with detailed descriptions of significant games, front-office follies, trades (some of which should never have been made, others of which turned out to be sheer genius), as well as the individual players (from the great to the incompetent) who toiled in a Cubs’ uniform during this period.

I Bleed Cubbie Blue provides often humorous, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, but always accurate commentary on P.K. Wrigley’s college of coaches, the Brock-Broglio trade (which, according to Erlandson, did not seem like such a bad trade the day it was made), the collapse in 1969 (which still ranks as quintessential of all Cubs’ swoons), why Leo Durocher was a great manager (and why he was not), the lean years of the Seventies and early Eighties, the wonderfully giddy year of 1984 (along with a detailed account of the two most important games of the season), a year that ultimately resulted in the second Great Disappointment (the first being 1969), the improbable divisional championship of 1989, why Kerry Wood’s fifth Major League start was and remains the greatest pitching performance of all times, why Steve Bartman was not to blame for the Cubs’ loss in the 2003 playoffs, and much, much more.

Along the way I Bleed Cubbie Blue describes bizarre plays (such as Cal Neeman’s unlikely inside-the-park homerun when Bob Skinner forgot what inning it was), the tragic death of Ken Hubbs at age 22, the pitcher who claimed he pitched in a hypnotic trance, Jack Brickhouse’s call of an around-the-horn triple play (before it happened!), the unintentionally funny moments with Harry Caray in the broadcast booth, and the most memorable performances by guest conductors during the seventh-inning stretch.

A comment from the Epilogue sums up Erlandson’s reason for writing this memoir: “Whether in winning or losing, the Cubs have provided me with countless memories that are as wonderful and as fresh as the beautifully-manicured baseball diamond that has anchored the northeast corner of Addison and Clark for a hundred years.”

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