God, Evil, and Redeeming Good

This book offers an original contribution to debates about the problem of evil and the existence of God. It develops a Thomistic, Christian theodicy, the aim of which is to help us better understand not only why God allows evil, but also how God works to redeem it.

Autorentext

Paul A. Macdonald Jr. is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the United States Air Force Academy. He is the author of Christian Theology and the Secular University (Routledge, 2017) and Knowledge and the Transcendent: An Inquiry into the Mind's Relationship to God (2009).

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. The Existence of Evil and the Existence of God 3. God, Evil, and the Good Creation 4. Free Will, the Fall, and Original Sin 5. God the Redeemer and Redemptive Suffering 6. Heaven, Hell, and the Perfection of the Universe 7. Hoping in the Face of Evil.