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The problems of suffering and evil /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cowburn, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milwaukee, Wisc. : Marquette University Press, [2012]
Series:Marquette studies in philosophy ; #72.
Subjects:
Good and evil.
Suffering > Religious aspects.
Theodicy.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Forms of Christian optimism
  • A version of the fall & redemption
  • Extreme pessimism
  • Free will & chance : indeterminism
  • Evolution
  • God & evolution
  • God & evolution
  • Moral evil
  • The content & effects of a morally evil act
  • The mystery of evil
  • God & sin
  • Corporate guilt & original sin
  • Judging & excusing
  • Repentance, forgiveness & reconciliation
  • Divine forgiveness & other theological matters
  • Retributive justice
  • Expiation & the victim's need for justice
  • Some theological reflections.