Monotheism, Suffering, and Evil
Monotheism, Suffering, and Evil

Author: Michael L. Peterson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-05-12

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1108911730

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Suffering and evil in the world provide the basis for the most difficult challenge to monotheistic belief. This Element discusses how the three great monotheisms – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – respond to the problem of suffering and evil. Different versions of the problem, types of answers, and recurring themes in philosophical and religious sources are analyzed. Objections to the enterprise of theodicy are also discussed as are additional objections to the monotheistic God more broadly. This treatment culminates in a recommendation for how monotheism can best respond to the most serious formulation of the problem, the argument from gratuitous evil.

Monotheism and Tolerance
Monotheism and Tolerance

Author: Robert Erlewine

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2010-01-11

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0253221560

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Monotheism and Tolerance suggests a way to deal with the intractable problem of religiously motivated and justified violence.

Calvinism and the Problem of Evil
Calvinism and the Problem of Evil

Author: David E. Alexander

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-07-13

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1532601026

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Contrary to what many philosophers believe, Calvinism neither makes the problem of evil worse nor is it obviously refuted by the presence of evil and suffering in our world. Or so most of the authors in this book claim. While Calvinism has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years amongst theologians and laypersons, many philosophers have yet to follow suit. The reason seems fairly clear: Calvinism, many think, cannot handle the problem of evil with the same kind of plausibility as other more popular views of the nature of God and the nature of God's relationship with His creation. This book seeks to challenge that untested assumption. With clarity and rigor, this collection of essays seeks to fill a significant hole in the literature on the problem of evil.

The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil
The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil

Author: Chad Meister

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-09

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1107055385

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This Companion offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights on the problem of evil.

Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil
Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil

Author: John R. Schneider

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-26

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1108487602

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This book will be of interest to college faculty and advanced students interested in the relationship between religion and science, particularly at Christian colleges and seminaries. Its value is to offer an innovative Christian theological approach to the daunting problem that Darwinian animal suffering poses to belief in God.

The Depth of the Riches
The Depth of the Riches

Author: S. Mark Heim

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2000-11

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0802826695

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A constructive new proposal for Christian dialogue with other faiths. Religious pluralism is today the most challenging issue facing traditional Christianity. This constructive work by a leading voice on the subjects of religious pluralism and interfaith relations probes the Christian understanding of God and salvation and offers a new perspective on religious pluralism that affirms unique salvation in Christ while also recognizing the religious ends of other faiths. The questions explored here are both difficult and enlightening. What is the distinctive nature of salvation? Is there a place in Christian theology for recognizing other religious ends in addition to salvation? In pursuit of meaningful answers, S. Mark Heim uses the classical doctrine of the Trinity to develop a theology that allows Christians to respect the possibility that alternative relations with God exist in other religions.

Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw

Author: Michael Murray

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2008-06-19

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0199237271

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Those who believe in God often puzzle over how God could permit evil and suffering in the world. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw focuses specifically on non-human animal suffering, and whether or not it raises problems for belief in the existence of a perfectly good creator.

Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil
Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil

Author: Brian Davies

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-08-24

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 0199831459

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Brian Davies offers the first in-depth study of Saint Thomas Aquinas's thoughts on God and evil, revealing that Aquinas's thinking about God and evil can be traced through his metaphysical philosophy, his thoughts on God and creation, and his writings about Christian revelation and the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation. Davies first gives an introduction to Aquinas's philosophical theology, as well as a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Aquinas's writings have been considered over time. For hundreds of years scholars have argued that Aquinas's views on God and evil were original and different from those of his contemporaries. Davies shows that Aquinas's views were by modern standards very original, but that in their historical context they were more traditional than many scholars since have realized. Davies also provides insight into what we can learn from Aquinas's philosophy. Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil is a clear and engaging guide for anyone who struggles with the relation of God and theology to the problem of evil.

Suffering Belief
Suffering Belief

Author: A. M. Weisberger

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Reviews major attempts among contemporary Anglo-American theists to reconcile the enormous degree of apparently gratuitous suffering in the world with the existence of an all-perfect deity of the traditional western variety. Focusing on the kinds of evil that seem most to jeopardize faith--genocide, natural catastrophes, animal suffering, and disease--concludes that there is little basis for believing in such a god and compelling reasons to abandon such a damaging construct. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature
Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature

Author: Donald Rutherford

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521597371

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This major contribution to Leibniz scholarship will prove invaluable to historians of philosophy, theology, and science.