About The Course

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.

The course is based on the book Demystifying Evil: A Biblical and Personal Exploration (InterVarsity Press) available for purchase at ivpress.com or at Amazon.com.

Presented with Northern Seminary.

Interested in taking this course as part of a seminary degree? Visit this page to learn more.

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Demystifying Evil (Trailer)

Demystifying Evil (Trailer)
1 - Wrestling with Evil

1 - Wrestling with Evil
2 - Defining Evil

2 - Defining Evil
3 - Actions Have Consequences

3 - Actions Have Consequences
4 - Nature and Natural Evil

4 - Nature and Natural Evil
5 - Human Need and Desire, Part 1

5 - Human Need and Desire, Part 1
6 - Human Need and Desire, Part 2

6 - Human Need and Desire, Part 2
7 - Human Pride and Insecurity

7 - Human Pride and Insecurity
8 - Human Responsibility and Authority, Part 1

8 - Human Responsibility and Authority, Part 1
9 - Human Responsibility and Authority, Part 2

9 - Human Responsibility and Authority, Part 2
10 - Malevolent Forces and Satan

10 - Malevolent Forces and Satan
11 - The Divine Council and “Rules of Engagement,” Part 1

11 - The Divine Council and “Rules of Engagement,” Part 1
12 - The Divine Council and “Rules of Engagement,” Part 2

12 - The Divine Council and “Rules of Engagement,” Part 2
13 - Divine Mercy and Grace, Part 1

13 - Divine Mercy and Grace, Part 1
14 - Divine Mercy and Grace, Part 2

14 - Divine Mercy and Grace, Part 2
15 - Repairing the World: Turning Ashes into Beauty

15 - Repairing the World: Turning Ashes into Beauty
16 - Epilogue (Demystifying Evil)

16 - Epilogue (Demystifying Evil)

Teaching This Course

Ingrid Faro

Ingrid Faro is coordinator of the MA in Old Testament program and visiting professor at Northern Seminary. Watch her Seminary Now videos here.

Bio

Ingrid Faro is a professor of Old Testament, and the coordinator of the MA in Old Testament-Jerusalem University College Program at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. She previously served as dean of academic affairs at Northern Seminary, dean of theology at the Scandinavian School of Theology, and director of masters programs at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Dr. Faro is the author of Demystifying Evil, Evil in Genesis and coauthor of Honest Answers. Additionally, she serves on the editorial board of the Bulletin for Biblical Research and speaks and preaches internationally.

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