Animal Suffering and the Problem of Evil

Nicola Hoggard Creegan offers a compelling examination of the problem of evil in the context of animal suffering, disease, and extinction and the violence of the evolutionary process.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Animals in the Garden of Eden; 2: Human, Animals and Death Revisited; 3: Animal Suffering-philosophical responses; 4: Animal Suffering-theological responses; 5: The Best of all Possible Worlds?; 6: The Wheat and the Tares: Re-Imagining Nature; 7: A Picture Held us Captive; 8: New Dynamics in Evolutionary Theory; 9: Dualism or Tares in Evolutionary History?; 10: The Fall and Beyond; 11: Concluding Animal Ethics; Epilogue; Notes; Index

About the author

Senior Lecturer in Theology, and Dean of Graduate School, Laidlaw College

Summary

Nicola Hoggard Creegan offers a compelling examination of the problem of evil in the context of animal suffering, disease, and extinction and the violence of the evolutionary process.

Additional text

Recommended.

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Nicola Hoggard Creegan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2013
• EAN: 9780199931842
• ISBN: 978-0-19-993184-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Theologie, Christentum, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Religion - Theology, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Religion and science, Religion & science, Evolution / Evolutionary biology