The Prince of This World Central Conference of American Rabbis Author: Bland Simpson

Author: Bland Simpson

KYLE DARGAN's poetry collections include Logorrhea Dementia: A Self-Diagnosis (Georgia)

After I'm done with her

the war ends successfully

The Prince of This World Central Conference of American Rabbis Author: Bland SimpsonThe most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is all good, God is all powerful, and evil happens. The Prince of This World traces the story of one of the most influential attempts to square this circle: the offloading of responsibility for evil onto one of God's rebellious creatures. In this striking reexamination, the devil's story is bitterly ironic,