Suffering Belief
Evil and the Anglo-American Defense of Theism
©1999
Monographs
XV,
244 Pages
Series:
Toronto Studies in Religion, Volume 23
Summary
One of the most intractable problems for the contemporary Anglo-American theist is reconciling the enormous amount of apparent gratuitous suffering in the world with the existence of an all-perfect deity. Suffering Belief reviews the leading attempts at justifying the existence of evil and salvaging a rational basis of belief in the traditional Western God. Through a systematic evaluation of the kinds of evil that most strongly call belief into question, such as genocide, natural catastrophes, animal suffering, and disease, it is shown that there is scant basis for continued belief in an all-perfect God and compelling reason for abandoning such a damaging construct.
Details
- Pages
- XV, 244
- Publication Year
- 1999
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9780820439754
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Anglo-American theism Evil Genocide Natural catastrophe Disease
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1999. XV, 244 pp.