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This volume samples a variety of modern theological, religious and philosophical discussions on the problem of evil, understood both in terms of the practical or spiritual problem of coping with evil, and the theological problem of explaining its presence in God’s world. Topics include protest atheism, responses to the Holocaust, Buddhist spirituality, the freewill defense, the vale of...

their main stumbling block—and catalyst—for theodicy (see 1.6 and Eckardt, 1.4). With the readings in Chapter 2, we move to the Buddhist tradition for an alternative perspective on suffering and a different analysis of the ways to cope with and explain it (for background information, see 2.8, Some explanatory notes on Buddhism). Early Buddhism is concerned primarily with the practical task of overcoming the universal fact of the suffering, misery or ‘unsatisfactoriness’ of existence, which is understood
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