Intrroduction
The Problem of Evil Defined
Theodicy Defined
"Defense" Defined
Key Approaches
The Logical Probelm of Evil
The Evidential Problem of Evil
The Existential Problem of Evil
Related Issues and Problems
Natural Evil
Evil and the Demonic
The History of Theodicy
The Literature of Theodicy
Theodicy and Scripture
The Politics of Theodicy
The Experience of Suffering
Horrific Evil
The Judgment of God
The Hiddenness of God
Metaphysical Evil
Classic and Contemporary Christian Responses
The Free Will Model
The Soul Making Model
The Possible Worlds/Great Design Argument
The Eschatological Hope
The Suffering of God Response
A Theology of the Cross
Faith and Trust
A Theodicy of Protest
Disavowal of Theodicy
Sapiential Theodicy
Mystical Theodicy
Narrative Theodicy
The Phenomenology of Evil and Suffering
The metaphysical horizons against which evil is experienced
The various experiences of evil as that which comes from without to alter us
Our various responses to its presence
How we commit evil or become complicit within it
Our various attempts to constrain or expel the evil within us
Conditions that mimic permeance within our personhood
Experience of evil as a controlling power
Border conditions
The various material conditions that constrain us
Frameworks that pass beyond evil and suffering