The Blackwell Companion to The Problem of Evil

by Justin P. McBrayer (Editor), Daniel Howard-Snyder (Editor)

The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil presents a collection of original essays providing both overview and insight, clarifying and evaluating the philosophical and theological “problem of evil” in its various contexts and manifestations.

Features all original essays that explore the various forms of the problems of evil, offering theistic responses that attempt to explain evil as well as discussion of the challenges facing such explanations Includes section introductions with a historical essay that traces the developments of the issues explored Acknowledges the fact that there are many problems of evil, some of which apply only to those who believe in concepts such as hell and some of which apply to non-theists Represents  views from the various religious traditions, including Hindu, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim

Genres: Philosophy, Atheism, Religion, Sociology

528 pages, Hardcover

First published October 2, 2013

Reviews

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

The highpoints of this volume are very good, and there were lots of unexpectedly good essays (Oppy, Meghan Sullivan, Evan Fales, Andrei Buckareff, Derk Pereboom). The problem is, as with any volume, there are too many essays I'm not sufficiently interested in, which are dead weight. So I'm glad it exists but not perfect.