Evil and the God of Love: With a Foreword by Marilyn McCord AdamsPreface to the 1985 Reissue -- Preface to the 2010 Reissue -- he Problem and its Terms -- The Two Poles of Thought : Monism and Dualism -- The Fountainhead: St Augustine : Evil as Privation of Good Stemming from Misused Freedom -- The Fountainhead: St Augustine : The Principle of Plenitude and the Aesthetic Theme -- Catholic Thought from Augustine to the Present Day -- The Problem of Evil in Reformed Thought -- Eighteenth-Century 'Optimism' -- Dividing the Light from the Darkness -- Sin and the Fall According to the Hellenistic Fathers -- The Irenaean Type of Theodicy in Schleiermacher -- The Two Theodicies : Contrasts and Agreements -- The Starting-Point -- Moral Evil -- Pain -- Suffering -- The Kingdom of God and the Will of God -- Recent Work on the Problem of Evil. |
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Preface to the First Edition | x |
Preface to the 2007 Reissue | xvi |
List of Abbrevations | xxiii |
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