Demystifying Evil: A Biblical and Personal Exploration

by Ingrid Faro

Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2023

Overview

The evil that afflicts our lives often leaves us confused and directionless, wounded and powerless. How should we respond to evil’s power to assault us? How can we understand God's work in a world that seems all too often to be permeated with evil?

Narrating her own wrestling with evil as well as engaging in biblical and philosophical analysis, biblical scholar Ingrid Faro explores the many dimensions to evil. Soberly honest, biblically engaged, and theologically nuanced, Demystifying Evil examines the power of evil to disrupt and fragment our lives and tempt us to collude with it.

But evil does not have the last word. Faro takes us on a journey into the book of Genesis, the Ancient Near East culture, the cross, and her own story of suffering to engage the undoing of evil.

Key Features

• Explores Genesis, the Ancient Near East culture, the cross
• Examines the power of evil to disrupt and fragment our lives and tempt us to collude with it
• Offers personal stories and practical insights

Contents

• Part 1: Wrestling with Evil
• Part 2: Natural Causes: Cosmic Seed and Natural Evil
• Part 3: Human Causes: Surprising Ways We Participate in Evil and Good
• Part 4: Unseen Causes: Spiritual Forces at Work
• Part 5: God at Work

Praise for the Print Edition

Probing the depths of human experience, Ingrid Faro addresses evil, what it is, how it works, and how God in his goodness overcomes it. Breathtaking in her honesty and relentless in her biblical scholarship, Faro broaches the subject we all must eventually face. Demystifying Evil is a masterful treatment of a fundamental issue from a voice uniquely gifted to write this book. A truly overwhelmingly powerful book.

—David Fitch, B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary

Jesus taught us to pray, ‘Deliver us from evil.’ Jesus believed in the destructive power of evil, and he warned us to avoid and combat it. Ingrid Faro equips us to do just that by explaining what Scripture says about evil. She masterfully moves between simple explanation, rich theological analysis, and poignant personal stories. This is not a dull treatise on evil; it is a call to embrace and participate in the grace of God to bring goodness to the world.

—Nijay K. Gupta, professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary

Ingrid Faro offers readers a gift—of her scholarship as well as her life. Her study of the Bible, along with personal stories and practical insights, can educate as well as encourage those who try to make sense of the vicissitudes of life. Faro says evil is not the absence of good but the corruption of good; she invites us to be agents of God’s goodness in our world and to let God make beauty from ashes.

—Dennis Edwards, dean of North Park Theological Seminary and author of Humility Illuminate: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character

Product Details

• Title: Demystifying Evil: A Biblical and Personal Exploration
• Author: Ingrid Faro
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Evil › Religious aspects--Christianity; Evil › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9781514004944, 9781514004937, 1514004941, 1514004933
• Resource ID: LLS:DMSTFYNGVIL
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-13T22:12:12Z