The Problem of Evil: The Challenge to Essential Christian Beliefs

by Jeremy A. Evans

Publisher:

B&H

, 2013

The Problem of Evil offers a comprehensive examination of the problem of evil from both technical and ministerial perspectives. Author and acclaimed philosophy professor Jeremy A. Evans treats the history of the problem with fairness, looking at it through contemporary philosophical literature and offering responses to the most substantive arguments from evil. His purpose is to provide holistic responses to the problem of evil that are philosophically and theologically maintainable.

Among the chapters are “Introduction to the Problem of Evil,” “The Logical Problem of Evil,” “The Evidential Problem of Evil,” “The Problem of Hell,” “The Problem of Divine Hiddenness,” “The Defeat of Evil,” “Moral Evil: Comparing Theism and Naturalism,” and “Evil and the Worship Worthiness of God.”

• Gain a comprehensive examination of the problem of evil from both technical and ministerial perspectives
• Study with author and acclaimed philosophy professor Jeremy A. Evans
• Discover holistic responses to the problem of evil that are philosophically and theologically maintainable

Contents

Top Highlights

“A theodicy is an attempt to justify the ways of God in light of the vast amounts of evil we find in the world.” (Pages 5–6)

“A defense, as one might guess, is not an attempt to explain what God is up to in permitting evil, but instead tries to provide rationally compelling reasons to question the soundness of the argument from evil against the existence of God.” (Page 6)

“There can be good without evil, but there cannot be evil without there being a good upon which it preys.” (Page 1)

“Natural evil is generally accepted as evil resultant from nonhuman causes such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornados” (Page 4)

“suffering is a result of divine punishment for sin” (Page 6)

Product Details

• Title: The Problem of Evil: The Challenge to Essential Christian Beliefs
• Author: Jeremy A. Evans
• Publisher: B&H
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christianity; God › Name; Good and evil
• ISBNs: 9781430074144, 9781433671807, 9781433674020, 1433671808, 1433674025, 1430074140
• Resource ID: LLS:9781433674020
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:45:59Z

About Jeremy A. Evans

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.