Christian Faith And The Problem Of Evil

by Van Inwagen, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780802826978
• ISBN10: 0802826970
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Gathers some of the most meaningful recent reflections on the problem of evil.

Author Biography

Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Supralapsarianism, or 'O Felix Culpa'	p. 1
Probability and Draper's Evidential Argument from Evil	p. 26
More Pain and Pleasure: A Reply to Otte	p. 41
The Argument from Evil	p. 55
The Problem of Evil: Moral Constraints and Philosophical Commitments	p. 74
The Problem of Pomegranates	p. 85
Suffering as Religious Experience	p. 95
The Gospel of Redemptive Suffering: Reflections on John Paul II's Salvifici Doloris	p. 111
"In the Bible, It Can Be So Harsh!" Battered Women, Suffering, and the Problem of Evil	p. 148
Normal Narcissism and the Need for Theodicy	p. 185
God, Evil, and the Thought of Simone Weil	p. 207
Seeing God Where the Wild Things Are: An Essay on the Defeat of Horrendous Evil	p. 226
Innocent Sinfulness, Guilty Sin: Original Sin and Divine Justice	p. 263
Faith Confronts Evil	p. 277
Contributors	p. 315
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