Download or read book Journey Back to God written by Mark S. M. Scott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey Back to God explores Origen of Alexandria's creative, complex, and controversial treatment of the problem of evil. It argues that his layered cosmology functions as a theodicy that explains unjust suffering and shows how that theodicy hinges on the journey of the soul back to God.