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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...

George Pattison, A Short Course in the Philosophy of Religion, London, SCM, 2001, pp. 162, 164–7, 169, 172 Voltaire wrote graphically of the horrors of war and of the other evils that human beings perpetrate upon each other, yet at the same time his reflections on the question of evil seem finally to come to rest on the problem of natural evil as manifested by the Lisbon earthquake. It is indeed characteristic of the distance separating the early
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