God and Evil: The Case for God in a World Filled with Pain
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The question of evil—its origins, its justification, its solution—has plagued humankind from the beginning. Every generation raises the question and struggles with the responses it is given. Questions about the nature of evil and how it is reconciled with the truth claims of Christianity are unavoidable; we need to be prepared to respond to such questions with great clarity and good faith.
God and Evil compiles the best thinking on all angles on the question of evil, from some of the finest scholars in religion, philosophy and apologetics, including
With additional chapters addressing "issues in dialogue" such as hell and human origins, and a now-famous debate between evangelical philosopher William Lane Craig and atheist philosopher Michael Tooley, God and Evil provides critical engagement with recent arguments against faith and offers grounds for renewed confidence in the God who is "acquainted with grief."
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- Provides reseanoble answers to the nature of evil
- Presents various ways evangelical Christians have wrestled with the issue of evil
- Engages readers in thinking critically about the important matter of God and evil
Part One: What is Evil and Why is it a Problem?
- Evidential Problems of Evil- Gregory E. Ganssle and Yena Lee
- Logical Problems of Evil - James K. Dew Jr.
- God and Gratuitous Evil - Bruce Little
Part Two: Some Reasons God Might Allow Evil
- Natural Evil: A "Free Process" Defense - Garry DeWeese
- Augustine and the Problem of Evil - R. Douglas Geivett
- The Irenaean Soul-Making Theodicy - James Spiegel
- Leibniz and the Best of All Possible Worlds - Jill Graper Hernandez
Part Three: Evil and Other Relevant Themes
- Evil and Primeval Sin - Paul Copan
- Evil and Original Sin - Paul Copan
- Evil and the Hiddenness of God - Chad Meister
- Evil and Prayer - Charles Taliaferro
- Evil, the Resurrection and the Example of Jesus - Gary Habermas
- Evil in Non-Christian Religions - Win Corduan
- Evil and the New Atheism - David Beck
- Evil as Evidence for Christianity - Gregory E. Ganssle
Part Four: Issues in Dialogue
- Diversity, Evil and Hell: A Particularist Approach - William Lane Craig
- God and Hell Reconciled - Kyle Blanchette and Jerry Walls
- Evil, Creation and Intelligent Design - William Dembski
- Evil, Creation and Evolution - Karl W. Giberson and Francis S. Collins
Top Highlights
“The presumption is that the latter good is of a higher order since it is the one promoted by God, who cannot do evil.14” (Page 69)
“By contrast, however, the logical problem of evil centers on an alleged inconsistency between the idea of God’s existence and the existence of evil itself.” (Page 27)
“We are convinced that when it all shakes out, the Bible does not directly or explicitly address the question of the fate of the unevangelized (nor the fate of the poorly evangelized). It is therefore the task of theology to infer the best answer it can from what the Bible does say about God and salvation. Our answer minimally has to be consistent with biblical teaching and ideally judged to be reasonably implied by it. We do not think exclusivism is implied by biblical teaching, nor do we think it is consistent with central biblical teaching about the universal love of God. However, one particular form of exclusivism tries to get around this problem in a rather sophisticated way.” (Page 249)
“they realized that their evil perpetrators mirrored what is in the heart of each of us” (Page 129)
“The evidential problem of evil considers the amount and kinds of evil in the world and concludes that, in all probability, God (an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent being) does not exist. The religious problem of evil considers the experiences of evil and the existential difficulty of it as it relates to religious belief.” (Page 26)
God and Evil provides critical engagement with recent arguments against faith and offers grounds for renewed confidence in the God who is 'acquainted with grief.
Light Magazine Canada, June 2013
If you are going to remember one thing about this book let it be this: value. . . . Further, the essays uniformly achieve a good balance between rigor and accessibility, giving the motivated lay reader a solid familiarity with the ongoing philosophical discussion relating to the problem of evil. . . . I'd like to commend the editors Meister and Dew for the yeoman's job they did in commissioning a diverse and ecclectic collection of essays on a wide range of topics. God and Evil is an excellent contribution to the literature.
Randal Rauser, apologist and author of The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails
For thoughtful believers, this collection of essays in God and Evil by prominent Christian thinkers will be useful for reference and teaching. The book is academically solid and accessible to most readers... In our age of pluralism and relativism, reading insightful arguments for Christian truth is encouraging and empowering for followers of Jesus committed to the Great Commission.
Charlie Self, Enrichment, Spring 2013
- Title: God and Evil: The Case for God in a World Filled with Pain
- Authors: James K. Dew Jr., Chad V. Meister
- Publisher: Inter-Varsity
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Pages: 360
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Apologetics; Good and evil; Theodicy
- ISBNs: 9780830866465, 9780830837847, 0830866469, 0830837841
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830866465
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:40:58Z