Over the coming weeks this page will start to house details of current thesis work, together with other papers, useful references, and links to virtual and non-virtual resources of interest to those who seek to come to grips with the "problem" of evil and suffering.  To start with, here is a short bibliography of recent works for those wishing to do some preliminary research in this area.

Books

D.R. Blumenthal    Facing the abusing God
Wendy Farley    Tragic vision and divine compassion
David R. Griffin      God, power and evil: A Process theodicy
John Hick    Evil and the God of love
G.T. Milazzo    The Protest and the silence
Alvin Plantinga    God, freedom and evil
John Polkinghorne      Science and providence
Kathleen M. Sands    Escape from paradise:Evil and tragedy in Feminist...
Richard Swinburne    The existence of God
Terrence W. Tilley     The evils of theodicy
Peter van Inwagen    God, knowledge and mystery
Barry L. Whitney    What are they saying about God and evil


M.M & R Adams    The problem of evil
Joan Copjec    Radical evil
Stephen T. Davis    Encountering evil
Daniel Howard -Snyder    The evidential argument from evil
Michael Peterson    The problem of evil


David Basinger    "The problem with the 'problem of evil.'"
In Religious Studies, 30 (1994):89-97.
Keith Chzran    "Necessary gratuitous evil."
In Faith and Philosophy, 11 (1994):134-137.
Norman Kretzmann    "God among the causes of moral evil."
In Philosophical Topics, 16 (1988): 189-214.
Bruce Langtry    "Some internal theodices and the objection from..."
In International Journal for Philosophy of Religion,
34 (1993): 29-39.
M. Scott    "The morality of theodices."
In Religious Studies, 32 (1996): 1-13.
Jerry L. Walls    "Why Plantinga must move from defense to theodicy."
In Philosophy and phenomenological research,
51 (1991): 375-378.

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