About the Book
This Reader brings together primary sources from philosophy,
theology and literature to chart the many and changing ways evil
has been approached and understood, and to examine the diverse
implications it has had for belief and unbelief.
Will fill a major gap in the publishing market.
Provides primary source readings for courses on religion and
evil.
A key issue in religious thought - this book will change the
way the subject is taught.
Author is one of the brightest young religious philosophers in
America.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements.
Introduction. Responding to Evils.
How to Use this Book.
Beginnings.
1 Plato, Timaeus.
2 Lucretius , On the Nature of the Universe.
3 Ovid, Phaethon.
4 Seneca, ?On Providence?.
5 Epictetus, Encheiridion.
6 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heretics.
7 Sextus Empiricus, ?God?.
8 Plotinus, ?Providence: First Treatise?.
9 Lactantius, The Wrath of God.
10 Augustine, City of God.
11 Pseudo-Dionysius, On the Divine Names and Mystical
Theology.
12 Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy.
Before Theodicy.
13 Anselm of Canterbury, On the Fall of the Devil.
14 Hildegard of Bingen, To the Congregation of Nuns.
15 Moses Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed.
16 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica.
17 Three liturgies: Stabat mater, a fifteenth-century Sarum, and
Dies irae.
18 Meister Eckhart, ?Blessed are the poor in
spirit?.
19 Geoffrey Chaucer, ?Patient Griselda?.
20 Julian of Norwich, Showings.
21 Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ.
22 Martin Luther, Prefaces to Job, Ecclesiastes, and the
Psalter.
23 John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion: John
Calvin.
24 John Donne, Batter my hear, three-personed God.
The Rise of Theodicy.
25 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.
26 John Milton, Paradise Lost.
27 Baruch Spinoza, Ethics.
28 Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the
Universe.
29 Anne Conway, Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern
Philosophy.
30 Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogues on Metaphysics and on
Religion.
31 Pierre Bayle, ?Manichees?;Note D.
32 G. W. Leibnitz, Theodicy.
33 Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man.
34 Voltaire, ?The Lisbon Earthquake: An Inquiry into the
Maxim, ?Whatever us, is right?.
35 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ?Letter from J.-J. Rosseau to
Mr. de Voltaire, August 18, 1756?.
36 David Hume, Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.
37 Immanuel Kant, On the Miscarriage of all Philosophical Trials
in Theodicy.
Beyond Optimism.
38 Thomas Robert Malhus, An Essay on the Principle of
Population.
39 F. W. Schelling, ?Philosophical Investigations into the
Essence of Human Freedomand Related Matters?.
40 John Keats, To George & Georgiana Keats, 14 February-8
May 1819.
41 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophical History of
the World.
42 Ralph Waldo Emerson, ?The Tragic?.
43 The World as Will and Representation: Arthur
Schopenhauer.
44 Charles Darwin, to Asa Gray, 22 May 1860.
45 John Stuart Mill, An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's
Philosophy.
46 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.
47 Freidrich Neitsche, On the Genealogy of Morality.
48 Gerald Manley Hopkins, ?Thou Art Indeed Just,
Lord?.
49 Josiah Royce, ?The Problem of Job?.
The 20th Century.
50 William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience.
51 W. E. B. DuBois, A Litany at Atlanta.
52 Thomas Hardy, Before Life and After.
53 Hermann Cohen, The Religion of Reason out of the Sources of
Judaism.
54 Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion.
55 Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics.
56 W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts.
57 C. S. Lewis, Animal Pain.
58 Simone Weil, The Love of God and Affliction".
59 C. G. Jung, Aion The Serenity Prayer.
60 Karl Barth, God and Nothingness.
61 John Hick, The 'Vale of Soul-Making' Theodicy.
62 William Jones, Is God a White Racist?.
63 Dorothee Soelle, A Critique of Christian Masochism.
64 Emmanuel Levinas, Useless suffering.
65 Nel Noddings, Women and Evil.
Index.
Scripture Index.
About the Author :
Mark Larrimore is Assistant Professor of Religion and Preceptor at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is currently completing a study on the ethics of Leibniz's Theodicy.
Review :
"The greatest strength of the reader, apart from the sheer number
of selections, is the impressive variety of approaches. This
richness of variety lends a particular grace to the volume, making
for lively and engaging reading. The volume will prove a valuable
reference tool for both student and specialist, and its usefulness
is significantly enhanced by the detailed Person, Subject and
Scripture indices." The Reformed Theological Review
"Mark Larrimore of the Centre for Human Values at Princeton
University has chosen the extracts judiciously and imaginatively
and provided short introductions to each of them together with
suggestions for further reading. Those students who work carefully
through this reader should gain a much more nuanced understanding
of this ancient dilemma." Theological Book Review
