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 Kenōsis and 'divine selection'; 10. Animals in heaven: the defeat of Darwinian evils.

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Provides an innovative Christian theological approach to the daunting problem that Darwinian animal suffering poses to belief in God.

About the Author

John R. Schneider is Professor Emeritus of Theology, Calvin College and currently teaches at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. He is 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.