Revised papers from an international conference gathering philosophers, theologians, and scientists on the topic of natural evil, held at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sept. 2005.
Previously published: Vatican City State : Vatican Observatory Publications ; Berkeley, Calif. : Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences ; Notre Dame, Ind. : Distributed by University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353) and index.
The historical development of the problem of evil / Niels Christian Hvidt -- The problems of theodicy : a background essay / Terrence W. Tilley -- The use and meaning of the word "suffering" in relation to nature / Wesley J. Wildman -- Varieties of theodicy : an exploration of responses to the problem of evil based on a typology of good-harm analyses / Christopher Southgate, Andrew Robinson -- Entropy, emergence, and the physical roots of natural evil / William R. Stoeger -- Physics, cosmology, and the challenge to consequentialist natural theodicy / Robert J. Russell -- Science and the problem of evil : suffering as a by-product of a finely-tuned cosmos / Nancey Murphy -- The lawfulness of nature and the problem of evil / Thomas F. Tracy -- Divine action and the "argument from neglect" / Philip Clayton, Steven Knapp -- Towards a creativity defense of belief in God in the face of evil / Terrence W. Tilley -- Natural evil in a divinely entangled world / Kirk Wegter-McNelly -- Why is God doing this? : suffering, the universe, and Christian eschatology / Denis Edwards -- Incongruous goodness, perilous beauty, disconcerting truth : ultimate reality and suffering in nature / Wesley J. Wildman -- The descriptive problem of evil / Brad J. Kallenberg -- Physics as theodicy / Don Howard