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Table of Contents

• A.The historical development of the problem of evil / Niels Christian Hvidt
• The problems of theodicy : a background essay / Terrence W. Tilley
• The use and meaning of the word "suffering" in relation to nature / Wesley J. Wildman
• Varieties of theodicy : an exploration of responses to the problem of evil based on a typology of good-harm analyses / Christopher Southgate and Andrew Robinson
• Entropy, emergence, and the physical roots of natural evil / William R. Stoeger
• Physics, cosmology, and the challenge to consequentialist natural theodicy / Robert John Russell --
• B.Science and the problem of evil : suffering as a by-product of a finely tuned cosmos / Nancey Murphy
• The lawfulness of nature and the problem of evil / Thomas F. Tracy
• Divine action and the "argument from neglect" / Philip Clayton and Steven Knapp
• Towards a creativity defense of belief in God in the face of evil / Terrence W. Tilley
• Natural evil in a divinely entangled world / Kirk Wegter-McNelly
• Why is God doing this? Suffering, the universe, and Christian eschatology / Denis Edwards
• Incongruous goodness, perilous beauty, disconcerting truth : ultimate reality and suffering in nature / Wesley J. Wildman
• The descriptive problem of evil / Brad J. Kallenberg
• Physics as theodicy / Don Howard

Notes

• ill.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-353) and index
• Revised papers from an international conference gathering philosophers, theologians, and scientists on the topic of natural evil, held at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sept. 2005

Subjects

• Cosmology--Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses
• Philosophy of nature--Congresses
• Physics--Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses
• Religion and science--Congresses
• Theodicy--Congresses

Authors

• Murphy, Nancey C
• Russell, Robert J
• Stoeger, William R

Series Title

• Scientific perspectives on the problem of natural evil ; v.1

Additional Title

• Physics and cosmology

Publisher

• Vatican Observatory Publications
• Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
• Distributed by University of Notre Dame Press, 2007

Call Number

• BT 160 .P49

ISBN

• 8820979594 (pbk)
• 9788820979591 (pbk)

Content Type

• text

Carrier Type

• volume

Media Type

• unmediated

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• https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/AOUz