1) The general area of your subject (from the session topics covered week by week). What aspect of this topic do you want to explore? (Narrow the focus a bit.)
Who are we are Human beings and what is wrong with us “God and Evil”
3) Which readings will resource your paper?
Primary Source
Faith Seeking Understanding, Third ed.; Daniel L. Miglior
chapter 6 only The Providence of God and the Mystery of Evil
Secondary Sources
Wendy Farley, Tragic Vision and Divine Compassion, a Contemporary Theodicy
Chapter 5 only Divine Compassion and the Problem of evil
Stephen T. Davis, Encountering Evil
Chapter 3 only Free will and Evil and the problem of Evil and the Task of Ministry
4) What are the questions you have that you want to inquire into?
If God is providential why is evil permitted?
How do you explain to those touched by evil why and how did God let it happen?
2) What thesis do you think you will want to argue?
Thesis
How do we understand the providence of God in the face of evil? (what resources in the tradition and what ways of thinking can help?) In the midst of crisis, we probably do not explain things to the one suffering but n our teaching and preaching, maybe we can give people ways of thinking about this that genuinely help them when they do face difficulty.
This is a 12-page double spaced paper I inch margins standard citations and bibliography
