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Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil John R. Schneider (Calvin College, Michigan)

Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil By John R. Schneider (Calvin College, Michigan)

Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil by John R. Schneider (Calvin College, Michigan)


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This book will be of interest to college faculty and advanced students interested in the relationship between religion and science, particularly at Christian colleges and seminaries. Its value is to offer an innovative Christian theological approach to the daunting problem that Darwinian animal suffering poses to belief in God.

Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil Summary

Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil by John R. Schneider (Calvin College, Michigan)

John R. Schneider explores the problem that animal suffering, caused by the inherent nature of Darwinian evolution, poses to belief in theism. Examining the aesthetic aspects of this moral problem, Schneider focuses on the three prevailing approaches to it: that the Fall caused animal suffering in nature (Lapsarian Theodicy), that Darwinian evolution was theonlyway for God to create an acceptably good and valuable world (Only-Way Theodicy), and that evolution is the source of major, God-justifying beauty (Aesthetic Theodicy). He also uses canonical texts and doctrines from Judaism and Christianity - notably the book of Job, and the doctrines of the incarnation, atonement, and resurrection - to build on insights taken from the non-lapsarian alternative approaches. Schneider thus constructs an original, God-justifying account of God and the evolutionary suffering of animals. His book enables readers to see that the Darwinian configuration of animal suffering unveiled by scientists is not as implausible on Christian theism as commonly supposed.

About John R. Schneider (Calvin College, Michigan)

John R. Schneider is Professor Emeritus of Theology, Calvin College and currently teaches at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Heis the author of Philip Melanchton's Rhetorical Construal of Biblical Authority (1990) and The Good of Affluence:Seeking God in a Culture of Wealth (2002). Most recently he has published widely debated articles on Darwinism and its implications for Christian faith.

Table of Contents

1. Facing the Darwinian problem of evil; 2. Darwinian evil and anti-theistic arguments; 3. Ways around the problem: Neo-Cartesian theory and skeptical theism; 4. Making a 'case for God' (a Causa Dei); 5. Animal suffering and the fall: Lapsarian theodicy; 6. Narrow is the way of world making: only way theodicy; 7. God-justifying beauty: aesthetic theodicy; 8. Suffering 'for no reason': job and the Darwinian problem; 9. Darwinian Kenosis and 'divine selection'; 10. Animals in heaven: the defeat of Darwinian evils.

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NPB9781108487603
9781108487603
1108487602
Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil by John R. Schneider (Calvin College, Michigan)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2020-03-26
298
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