Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy

by Stephen T. Davis

Other authors: John B. Cobb Jr. (Contributor), David Ray Griffin (Contributor), John K Roth (Contributor)

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Concerned with the serious intellectual and moral questions that evil presents to religious believers. Each essay is given a critique by the other contributors: John Roth, John Hick, David Griffen, Frederick Sontag, and Stephen Davis.

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6 Christian theologians have collaborated to prepare this personally revealing encounter with the problem of evil. Their concern is with the serious intellectual and moral questions and problems that evil presents to religious believers

PendleHillLibrary | Jul 21, 2023 |

A great resource for varying thoughts on the role of the Divine in Evil. (

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lstcst | Dec 6, 2010 |

If God is all powerful and perfectly good, how can there be evil in the world? Six theologians offer their approaches to this problem and then are critiqued by the others. This book lays out the major possibilities on this issue quite thoroughly. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Stephen T. Davis	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Cobb Jr., John B.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Griffin, David Ray	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Roth, John K	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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