The Reality of God And the Problem of Evil

by Davies, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780826492418
• ISBN10: 082649241X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781441138705
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-11
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

Does evil show that there could not possibly be a God? Does it suggest that God's existence is unlikely? With these questions we come to the so-called 'problem of evil' - an intellectual one, not a practical one. Yet how is it best approached?

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
The Problem of Evil	7	(24)
God the Creator	31	(27)
Identifying God	58	(26)
God's Moral Standing	84	(28)
How Not to Exonerate God: I	112	(28)
How Not to Exonerate God: II	140	(33)
Evil, Causation and God	173	(24)
Goodness, Love and Reasons	197	(25)
God, Evil and Goodness	222	(29)
Appendix: Is God Morally Indifferent?	251	(5)
Bibliography	256	(5)
Index	261