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Informationen zum Autor Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethel College, Indiana, where he received the Professor of the Year award for teaching excellence. He is the author of Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed, 2nd edition (forthcoming), and co-editor of Five Views on the Problem of Evil (forthcoming), The History of Evil (six volumes, forthcoming), and the award-winning God Is Great, God Is Good (2009). Paul Moser is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. He is the author of The God Relationship (Cambridge, forthcoming) and the award-winning book The Elusive God: Reorienting Religious Epistemology (Cambridge, 2002). Other publications include The Evidence for God (Cambridge, 2009), The Severity of God (Cambridge, 2013), Knowledge and Evidence (Cambridge, 1991), Philosophy after Objectivity (1993), and Theory of Knowledge (1997). He is the editor and co-editor of Jesus and Philosophy (Cambridge, 2008), The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology (2005), and The Wisdom of the Christian Faith (Cambridge, 2012). He is the co-editor, with Chad Meister, of the Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society series. Klappentext This Companion offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights on the problem of evil. Zusammenfassung The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil offers a state-of-the-art contribution! providing critical analyses of and creative insights on the longstanding philosophical and theological problem of evil. Written by leading scholars in clear and accessible prose! this book is ideal for students! teachers! and scholars across the disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Conceptual Issues and Controversies: 1. Evil and the meaning of life John Cottingham; 2. Beauty and the problem of evil Charles Taliaferro; 3. Logical arguments from evil and free will defences Graham Oppy; 4. God, evil, and the nature of light Paul Draper; 5. Skeptical theism Timothy Perrine and Stephen Wykstra; 6. Evil, hiddenness, and atheism J. L. Shellenberg; 7. Anti-theodicy N. N. Trakakis; Part II. Interdisciplinary Issues: 8. Cosmic evolution and evil Christopher Southgate; 9. Ancient Near Eastern perspectives on evil and terror Margo Kitts; 10. Judaism and the problem of evil Lenn Goodman; 11. Christianity, atonement, and evil Paul S. Fiddes; 12. Islam and the problem of evil Timothy Winter; 13. Naturalism, evil, and God Michael Ruse....
