Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil

ISBN-13: 9781108487603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 298 str.

John R. Schneider

Opis

Provides an innovative Christian theological approach to the daunting problem that Darwinian animal suffering poses to belief in God.

Spis treści

1. Facing the Darwinian problem of evil; 2. Darwinian evil and anti-theistic arguments; 3. Ways around the problem: Neo-Cartesian theory and skeptical theism; 4. Making a 'case for God' (a Causa Dei); 5. Animal suffering and the fall: Lapsarian theodicy; 6. Narrow is the way of world making: only way theodicy; 7. God-justifying beauty: aesthetic theodicy; 8. Suffering 'for no reason': job and the Darwinian problem; 9. Darwinian Kenōsis and 'divine selection'; 10. Animals in heaven: the defeat of Darwinian evils.