Table of Contents: “…Judaic and Christian Traditions -- Creation -- The first account of creation -- The second account of creation -- Later interpretations of creation -- Evolutionary theories -- Jewish responses -- Christian responses -- The concept of the Creator God -- The creation of human beings -- Dualism -- Evolving theories of creation -- Causes of good and evil -- Theodicy -- Jewish theodicies -- Christian theodicies -- The eschaton -- Creator and creation -- 2. …”
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Table of Contents: “…/ Stanley P. Rosenberg -- Theodicy, fall, and Adam / Michael Lloyd -- The fallenness of nature: three nonhuman suspects / Michael Lloyd -- An Irenaean approach to evil / Richard Swinburne -- "Free-process" and "only way" arguments / Christopher Southgate -- Non-identity theodicy / Vince Vitale -- Conclusion to part 3 / Michael Lloyd.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Philosophical exegete of Alexandrian Jewry -- Philo's theory of creation -- Philo's mysticism -- Philo's significance -- The contemplative life -- The giants -- Selections from Philo's other works: Autobiographical -- Scriptural exegesis -- The divine mind -- Cosmogony -- Souls, angels and daemons -- The divine transcendence -- Knowledge and prophecy -- Worship -- Mysticism -- Providence, theodicy and miracles -- Ethical theory -- Moses and the law -- Universalism and particularism.…”

Table of Contents: “…-- Philosophical proofs and religious commitment -- The problem of evil -- The problem of goodness -- The moriarty hypothesis -- Dummy hypotheses -- The appeal to faith -- Skepticism about faith -- The theodicy trap -- The problem of meaning -- Miracles -- God without religion -- Playing the odds -- Why worship God? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover -- LEVINAS AND THE TRAUMA OF RESPONSIBILITY -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1 Deformalizing Time -- 2 The Traumatic Impact of Deformalized Time -- 3 The Method of An-Archeology -- 4 Between Theodicy and Despair -- 5 The Sobering Up of Oedipus -- 6 Anxieties of Incarnation -- 7 Rethinking Death on the Basis of Time -- 8 Animals and Creatures -- Conclusion: Inheriting the Thought of Diachrony -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Thomas Pynchon's prophecy -- Science and religion in Carl Sagan's Contact -- Evolution and theodicy in Blood meridian -- The postmodern gospel according to Dan -- Conclusion: politics, literature, method.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Norris Clarke -- In defence of a kind of natural theology / Bowman Clarke -- Soft natural theology / Ninian Smart -- Experience and natural theology / Eugene Thomas Long -- Theodicy / Louis Dupré…”

Table of Contents: “…Schmaltz -- The Malebranche-Arnauld debate / Denis Moreau -- Malebranche on causation / Steven Nadler -- Metaphysics and philosophy / Jean-Christophe Bardout -- Malebranche's theodicy / Donald Rutherford -- Malebranche on human freedom / Elmar J. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Patrt 1: Background, Assumptions, and Themes -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Major Trajectories -- A Personal Journey toward the Via Dolorosa -- A Timely Theology That Subsumes Suffering and Theodicy -- A Thematic, Representative Methodology and Eschatological Heuristic -- A Summary and Overview of Theological Trajectories -- A Practical Utilization of Cross, Glory, and Kingdom -- Chapter 2: Classical Themes of Theologies of the Cross -- Theologia Crucis as a Deterministic Soteriological Singularity…”
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Table of Contents: “…America's dark theologian: reading Stephen King religiously -- Thin spots: what peeks through the cracks in the world -- Deadfall: ghost stories as God-talk -- A jumble of blacks and whites: becoming religious -- Return to Ackerman's field: ritual and the unseen order -- Forty years in Maine: Stephen King and the varieties of religious experience -- If it be your will: theodicy, morality, and the nature of God -- The land beyond: cosmology and the never-ending questions.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Philosophy in a minor chord -- The complaint: Bayle and Malebranche on physical evil -- The optics of optimism: Leibniz and King respond to Bayle -- Of hope and consolation: Voltaire and the deists -- When stoicism meets pessimism: La Mettrie and Maupertuis -- The dispositional problem of evil: David Hume -- The art of suffering: Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The failure of theodicy: Immanuel Kant -- The flute-playing pessimist: Arthur Schopenhauer -- Dark matters: pessimism as a moral source.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Philosophy in a minor chord -- The complaint: Bayle and Malebranche on physical evil -- The optics of optimism: Leibniz and King respond to Bayle -- Of hope and consolation: Voltaire and the Deists -- When stoicism meets pessimism: La Mettrie and Maupertuis -- The dispositional problem of evil: David Hume -- The art of suffering: Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The failure of theodicy: Immanuel Kant -- The flute-playing pessimist: Arthur Schopenhauer -- Dark matters: pessimism as a moral source…”
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Table of Contents: “…The religious background and contexts of the late Victorian controversies -- God and the world: the reign of law: design, providence, and teleology -- God and the world: the reign of law: providence, evil, and theodicy -- God and the world: the reign of law and miracle -- Humanity's place in nature: the challenge to Christian anthropology: human origins, the fall, and sin -- Humanity's place in nature: the challenge to Christian anthropology: mind, free will, and the foundation of morals -- The new science of religion: Christianity's relation to other faiths.…”

Table of Contents: “…Missing no longer -- You did it yourself in nine months -- The ark of the continents -- The tree of cousinship -- History written all over us -- Arms races and 'evolutionary theodicy' -- There is grandeur in this view of life -- Appendix. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : religion, civil society, and the challenge of global justice -- Religion and the problem of the "social" -- Class and economic interaction : historical materialism as a theory of liberal modernity -- Legitimation versus theodicy : Weber's comparative religion -- Hegemony and democracy -- Class consciousness or ethical hegemony? …”
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Table of Contents: “…The Counter-Elite and a Theodicy of the Dispossessed -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The requirement of "Return": the development of repentance from Torah to prophecy (with a note on theodicy) -- 6. The establishment of hope: the prophetic promise of redemption.…”
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Table of Contents: “…James and Alejo Carpentier on the Haitian Revolution -- Between Mackandal and Tembandumba : Luis Palés Matos's Haitian poems -- Between Louverture and Christophe : Aimé Césaire on the Haitian Revolution -- A tragedy of success : Derek Walcott's Haitian heroes -- Maroons in the Tout-Monde : Edouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint -- An Afrocentric theodicy of liberation : Manuel Zapata Olivella's Changó el gran putas -- Conclusion: The spirit of the Haitian Revolution in the Caribbean.…”
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