Problem of Evil Philosophy Book Recommendations

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I am interested in philosophy book recommendations by both theists and atheists/agnostics that touches on the most current state of debate between the two groups on this topic. Thanks in advance for any recommendations.
 
The Dominican friar Brian Davies has published a recent book titled The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil (Continuum: London and New York, 2006). He’s also famous for a book already in its third edition, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. He is currently on the faculty at Fordham University.
 
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The Dominican friar Brian Davies has published a recent book titled The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil (Continuum: London and New York, 2006). He’s also famous for a book already in its third edition, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. He is currently on the faculty at Fordham University.
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I am interested in philosophy book recommendations by both theists and atheists/agnostics that touches on the most current state of debate between the two groups on this topic. Thanks in advance for any recommendations.
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How philosophically deep are you looking to get?
 
I just took a class from one Dr. Nathan Kowalsky at st. Joseph’s College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and it completely answered my questions on the subject. I know at some point he is going to write a paper on the subject, but if you like I could email you the term paper I wrote for it, it might help clear some things up.
 
Depending on how deep your faith is, you should maybe read the atheist view of evil and all their objections. BUT if your faith is still not deep enough (past the intellect) than postpone your reading of these:

God is not Great - Hitchens
Letter to a Christian Nation - Harris
The God Delusion - Dawkins (I dislike that man)
Any of Nietzsche’s works

You can just jump to these if you want:
The Problem of Pain - Lewis
A Grief Observed - Lewis
God is No Delusion (section on morality) - Crean
Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? - Jones
Handbook of Catholic Apologetics (the section of the “The Problem of Evil”) - Kreeft and Tacelli
Making Sense of Suffering - Kreeft
Second Friends (section on Problem of Suffering) - Walsh

These should give you a nice start. If not, then I am sorry! 🙂

God bless
 
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How philosophically deep are you looking to get?
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arguments that address the free will argument have recently been interesting to me. Arguments that deal with the differences between epistemically, metaphysical and logical possibities and how they pertain to free will defense arguments. I guess anything on the subject if you have any good references.
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GreggAlvarez said:
Depending on how deep your faith is, you should maybe read the atheist view of evil and all their objections. BUT if your faith is still not deep enough (past the intellect) than postpone your reading of these:

God is not Great - Hitchens
Letter to a Christian Nation - Harris
The God Delusion - Dawkins (I dislike that man)
Any of Nietzsche’s works

You can just jump to these if you want:
The Problem of Pain - Lewis
A Grief Observed - Lewis
God is No Delusion (section on morality) - Crean
Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? - Jones
Handbook of Catholic Apologetics (the section of the “The Problem of Evil”) - Kreeft and Tacelli
Making Sense of Suffering - Kreeft
Second Friends (section on Problem of Suffering) - Walsh

These should give you a nice start. If not, then I am sorry! 🙂

God bless
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Thanks for the recommendations
 
simspt said:
Yes, these are some of what i was looking at, do you have any specific recommendations out of these? I have read Plantiga. thanks for the link and other recommendation.
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If you’re interested in the Free Will defense of moral evil and you’ve read Plantinga then you’ve essentially reached the end of the line with that particular topic. For the past couple decades people have tried to knock it down and it has always been able to undermine the criticisms. Currently, both sides (atheist and theist) agree that the Free Will Defense works. The hairier issue is natural evil.
 
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