Evil (Problems in Theology)
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2003
128 pages
978-0-567-23621-0 (ISBN)
Description
This reader samples a wide range of modern theological, religious and philosophical discussion on the problem of evil, understood both in terms of the practical or spiritual problem of coping with evil, and the theological problem of explaining its presence in God's world.
Topics include protest atheism, responses to the Holocaust, Buddhist spirituality, the freewill defence, the vale of soul-making theodocy, and the 'cost-effectiveness' of evil.
Contributors include Roy Eckardt, Austin Farrer, John Hick, Soren Kierkegaard, John Mackie, Jurgen Moltmann, Kenneth Surin, Elie Wiesel.
Topics include protest atheism, responses to the Holocaust, Buddhist spirituality, the freewill defence, the vale of soul-making theodocy, and the 'cost-effectiveness' of evil.
Contributors include Roy Eckardt, Austin Farrer, John Hick, Soren Kierkegaard, John Mackie, Jurgen Moltmann, Kenneth Surin, Elie Wiesel.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-23621-0 (9780567236210)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Reading the readings
- 1 Evil, protest and response
- 1.1 Outrage and rebellion
- 1.2 Theodicy and bad faith
- 1.3 Finding God inevil
- 1.4 Protest atheism and the cross
- 1.5 Suffering and the death of Christ
- 1.6 Survival, endurance and the Holocaust
- Topics for discussion
- 2 The Buddha and Kierkegaard on suffering: Two religions compared
- 2.1 The Buddha, suffering and enlightenment
- 2.2 On not explaining
- 2.3 On direct experience
- 2.4 Nirvana
- 2.5 Compassion and sacrifice
- 2.6 Self and suffering
- 2.7 Kierkegaard on truth, Job and Christ
- 2.8 Some explanatory notes on Buddhism
- Topics for discussion
- 3 The varieties of theodicy
- 3.1 The problem posed
- 3.2 Some solutions offered
- 3.3 The principle of plenitude and the screening of God
- 3.4 Evil as non-being
- 3.5 The free will defence
- 3.6 The vale of soul-making
- Topics for discussion
- 4 The logic of theodicy
- 4.1 The best possible world?
- 4.2 Maximizing satisfaction?
- 4.3 Necessary evil?
- 4.4 The cost-effectiveness of evil and the quantifying of pain
- Topics for discussion
- Acknowledgements
- Further reading
- Index of subjects
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- Index of names
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