CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES I, CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 24

SERIES IIA, ISLAM, VOLUME 13

 

GOD AND THE CHALLENGE OF EVIL

 

A Critical Examination of Some Serious

 Objections to the Good and Omnipotent God

 

by

JOHN L. YARDAN

 

CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Chapter I. Evil: Preliminary Notions

Chapter II. The Problem of Evil

Chapter III. The Idea of Good and the Good Person

Chapter IV. Good and the Good God

Chapter V. The Power, Impossibility and Omnipotence of God

Chapter VI. Must God Create the Best Possible World?

Chapter VII. The Amount of Evil in the World: Is It too Great? The Issue of Pointless Evil

Chapter VIII. A World of Divine Intervention

Chapter IX. Possible Worlds Based on Greater Human Knowledge

Chapter X. A World with Diminished Human Freedom

Chapter XI. War and the Problem of Evil: A World Without the Possibility of War

Chapter XII. The Role of Suffering: An Obstacle I

Chapter XIII. The Role of Suffering: An Obstacle II

Chapter XIV. The Punishment Problem

Chapter XV. Consequences

 

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