Epicurean Redux: The Pathetic God?!  We take a renewed look at the Epicurean dilemma: what needs to give?  Is God loving but not powerful?  Is God powerful but not loving? Neither loving or powerful?  Is there another option?  How does this Christian God suffer the existence of evil?

• Richard Bauckham, God Crucified : Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm B Eerdmans Publishers, 1999 (ISBN: 978-0802846426)
• Richard Bauckham, 'In Defence of the Crucified God,' Evangel: The British Evangelical Review 9:1, 13-16,  1991.
• David J. Bosch, 'The Vulnerability of Mission', Baptist Quarterly, 34:8, 351-363, 1992 (DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.1992.11751898).
• David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edition, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).
• Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).
• Stephen Charles Mott, Biblical Ethics and Social Change. Second Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (ISBN: 978-0199739370).

Readings: 

• 'God Crucified: The Divine Identity Revealed in Jesus', Bauckham, , Chapter 3
• 'In Defence of the Crucified God,' Bauckham, Evangel: The British Evangelical Review
• ‘The Vulnerability of Mission ’, Bosch, Baptist Quarterly
• ‘Biblical Faith and the Reality of Social Evil’, Mott, Chapter 1

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