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Contributors page ix
Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1
Chad Meister and Paul K. Moser

Part I Conceptual Issues and Controversies

1 Evil and the Meaning of Life 11
John Cottingham
2 Beauty and the Problem of Evil 27
Charles Taliaferro
3 Logical Arguments from Evil and Free-Will Defences 45
Graham Oppy
4 God, Evil, and the Nature of Light 65
Paul Draper
5 Skeptical Theism 85
Timothy Perrine and Stephen J. Wykstra
6 Evil, Hiddenness, and Atheism 108
J. L. Schellenberg
7 Anti-Theodicy 124
N. N. Trakakis

Part II Interdisciplinary Issues

8 Cosmic Evolution and Evil 147
Christopher Southgate
9 Ancient Near Eastern Perspectives on Evil and Terror 165
Margo Kitts
10 Judaism and the Problem of Evil 193
Lenn E. Goodman
11 Christianity, Atonement and Evil 210
Paul S. Fiddes

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12 Islam and the Problem of Evil 230

Timothy Winter
13 Naturalism, Evil, and God 249
Michael Ruse

Index 267

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