The Problem of Evil The Gifford Lectures

The vast amount of suffering in the world is often held as a particularly powerful reason to deny that God exists. Now, one of the world's most distinguished philosophers of religion presents his own position on the problem of evil. Highly accessible and sensitively argued, Peter van Inwagen's book argues that such reasoning does not hold: his conclusion is not that God exists, but that suffering cannot be shown to prove that He does not.

Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Detailed Contents

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Lecture 1. The Problem of Evil and the Argument from Evil

1

(17)

Lecture 2. The Idea of God

18

(19)

Lecture 3. Philosophical Failure

37

(19)

Lecture 4. The Global Argument from Evil

56

(19)

Lecture 5. The Global Argument Continued

75

(20)

Lecture 6. The Local Argument from Evil

95

(18)

Lecture 7. The Sufferings of Beasts

113

(22)

Lecture 8. The Hiddenness of God

135

(17)

Notes

152

(25)

Works Cited

177

(4)

Index

181

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The Problem of Evil The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in 2003

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