Evil and the god of love [electronic resource] / John Hick.

When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly became recognized as a modern theological classic, widely viewed as the most important work on the problem of evil to appear in English for more than a generation. It has continued to be at the centre of discussions ever since. This reissue of...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Hick, John, 1922-2012
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2010.
Edition:New ed. /
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the 1985 Reissue
  • Preface to the 2010 Reissue
  • he Problem and its Terms
  • The Two Poles of Thought : Monism and Dualism
  • The Fountainhead: St Augustine : Evil as Privation of Good Stemming from Misused Freedom
  • The Fountainhead: St Augustine : The Principle of Plenitude and the Aesthetic Theme
  • Catholic Thought from Augustine to the Present Day
  • The Problem of Evil in Reformed Thought
  • Eighteenth-Century 'Optimism'
  • Dividing the Light from the Darkness
  • Sin and the Fall According to the Hellenistic Fathers
  • The Irenaean Type of Theodicy in Schleiermacher
  • The Two Theodicies : Contrasts and Agreements
  • The Starting-Point
  • Moral Evil
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • The Kingdom of God and the Will of God
  • Recent Work on the Problem of Evil.