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lly the great American religious historian Martin Marty. He said, 'What this emphasis on symbolism is ab

which is how do you account for the problem of evil beside your belief in an all-powerful God? Well, the classic Christian answer, which satisfied Augustine, does not satisfy me or any atheist. Which is that we have free will. And we are responsible for all the evil in the world. No. I think the evoluti

ol, and from 2000 to 2004 he directed the Martin Marty Center. the Divinity School's institute for adva

nd partly by the natural agent; rather, it is wholly done by both." For prominent examples of such a view in the history of Christian thought, see Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, trans. John Hammond Taylor (New York: Newman Press, 1982), chapters 10-12, pp. 49-51; and Cyril of Alexandria, C

Dutton, N.Y. 1911. A Nation of Believers Martin Marty, Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago. 1976. Introductio

hilosopher, Walter Kaufman, has noted in his Religion in Four t Dimensions “...compassion for unbelievers is implicitly condemned and proscribed...Augustine argued expressly against compassion for the damned and Luther used invectives against his (religious) enemies...” How can this be God’s 145 HOUSE_

ool, and from 2000 to 2004 he directed the Martin Marty Center, the Divinity School’s institute for advan

nd partly by the natural agent; rather, it is wholly done by both.” * For prominent examples of such a view in the history of Christian thought, see Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, trans. John Hammond Taylor (New York: Newman Press, 1982), chapters 10-12, pp. 49-51; and Cyril of Alexandria, Comme