If God exists, why is there so much pain and suffering, and why isn't his existence more obvious? Philip Pegan develops a theodicy in answer to these questions that is consistent with theological determinism and with physicalism about all Earthly life and which promises eternal happiness for all creatures who have suffered.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One: The Christian Account of Cosmos: Some Basic Elements and the Transformation of Cosmos
Chapter Two: Naturally Fitting Origins and Histories
Chapter Three: Human Nature, Early Humans, and a Natural Capacity to be Connected to God Through Our Hearts
Chapter Four: More on Miracles, Angels, and Demons
Chapter Five: A World Actualizer Essentially Unsurpassable in Power, Knowledge, Goodness, and Rationality
Chapter Six: It is Plausible the Christian History of Cosmos is Free of Improvable Creation Circumstances: Part 1
Chapter Seven: It is Plausible the Christian History of Cosmos is Free of Improvable Creation Circumstances: Part 2
Chapter Eight: It is Plausible God Would Actualize a World That Includes the Christian History of Cosmos
Chapter Nine: Revising the Theodicy to Accommodate Different Beliefs and Other Final Points
