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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Cry of Rachel
Maritain's 1942 Marquette Aquinas Lecture
Maritain's The Person and the Common Good
Camus's The Plague
ch. 2 Joy
Being as the Good and the Eruption of Willing
Being and Philosophical Psychology
An Ordinary Knowledge of God and Metaphysics
Metaphysics as Implicit Knowledge
Being and the Intellectual Emotions
ch. 3 Quandoque Evils
Aquinas's Rationale for the Corruptible Order
The Corruptible Order and Quandoque Evils
Bracketing Quandoque Evils between Goods
A Caveat in Understanding the Subject of the Consequent Good
The Effect of Human Providence upon the Frequency of Quandoque Evils
ch. 4 Natural Corruptions
Death as a Natural Corruption
Natural Corruption as Nondefinitive
Ambiguity of "Praeter Intentionem" and "Per Accidens"
God and the Evil of Punishment (Poena)
Other Interpretations
Abraham and Isaac
Conclusion
ch. 5 Preliminaries to Aquinas and the Contemporary Discussion
C.G. III, 71: "If Evil Exists, God Exists"
William Rowe on Cosmological Reasoning
De Ver. X, 12, ad 10m: "If not God from Justice, then God from Some Other Effect"
Summary of Aquinas on the Existence of Evil
A Strategy
ch. 6 The Thomist and the Contemporary Discussion: Personalist Theodicies
Marilyn McCord Adams and "Horrendous Evils"
William Hasker: Personal Satisfaction and World Approval
John Hick: Creation as a Gymnasium for the Development of Our Virtues
David Ray Griffin and the Denial of Genuine Evils
The Brothers Karamazov
Thomistic "Natural Desires" of the Human Person
ch. 7 The Thomist and the Contemporary Discussion: Cosmological Theodicies
Diogenes Allen and Suffering as an Experience of God
David Hume and Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, X and XI
William Rowe and "Pointless Evils"
J. L. Mackie and Further Objections to a Cosmological Theodicy
Mackie's Fourth Criticism and Aquinas on the Causality of Human Choices
Aquinas and Plantinga
The Avoidance of Determinism
The Avoidance of Divine Culpability
A Thomistic Free Will Defense?
Richard Swinburne: Nature as a Necessary Display Case for Our Knowledge of Good and Evil
Bruce Reichenbach: Developing Plantinga and Swinburne
ch. 8 Conclusion and Comparison to Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump
Brian Davies's Apophatic Treatment of the Evil Problem
Eleonore Stump and the Love of God
The Consolation of Rachel.
Maritain's 1942 Marquette Aquinas Lecture
Maritain's The Person and the Common Good
Camus's The Plague
ch. 2 Joy
Being as the Good and the Eruption of Willing
Being and Philosophical Psychology
An Ordinary Knowledge of God and Metaphysics
Metaphysics as Implicit Knowledge
Being and the Intellectual Emotions
ch. 3 Quandoque Evils
Aquinas's Rationale for the Corruptible Order
The Corruptible Order and Quandoque Evils
Bracketing Quandoque Evils between Goods
A Caveat in Understanding the Subject of the Consequent Good
The Effect of Human Providence upon the Frequency of Quandoque Evils
ch. 4 Natural Corruptions
Death as a Natural Corruption
Natural Corruption as Nondefinitive
Ambiguity of "Praeter Intentionem" and "Per Accidens"
God and the Evil of Punishment (Poena)
Other Interpretations
Abraham and Isaac
Conclusion
ch. 5 Preliminaries to Aquinas and the Contemporary Discussion
C.G. III, 71: "If Evil Exists, God Exists"
William Rowe on Cosmological Reasoning
De Ver. X, 12, ad 10m: "If not God from Justice, then God from Some Other Effect"
Summary of Aquinas on the Existence of Evil
A Strategy
ch. 6 The Thomist and the Contemporary Discussion: Personalist Theodicies
Marilyn McCord Adams and "Horrendous Evils"
William Hasker: Personal Satisfaction and World Approval
John Hick: Creation as a Gymnasium for the Development of Our Virtues
David Ray Griffin and the Denial of Genuine Evils
The Brothers Karamazov
Thomistic "Natural Desires" of the Human Person
ch. 7 The Thomist and the Contemporary Discussion: Cosmological Theodicies
Diogenes Allen and Suffering as an Experience of God
David Hume and Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, X and XI
William Rowe and "Pointless Evils"
J. L. Mackie and Further Objections to a Cosmological Theodicy
Mackie's Fourth Criticism and Aquinas on the Causality of Human Choices
Aquinas and Plantinga
The Avoidance of Determinism
The Avoidance of Divine Culpability
A Thomistic Free Will Defense?
Richard Swinburne: Nature as a Necessary Display Case for Our Knowledge of Good and Evil
Bruce Reichenbach: Developing Plantinga and Swinburne
ch. 8 Conclusion and Comparison to Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump
Brian Davies's Apophatic Treatment of the Evil Problem
Eleonore Stump and the Love of God
The Consolation of Rachel.