Evil and the Cross: An Analytical Look at the Problem of Pain Book

	Translator's preface	7
	Introduction	9
	Evil: the reality behind the word	10
	The three questions about evil	12
	The three solutions of human reason	13
	The proposed shape of our study	17
1	The solution by universal order	19
	The best of all possible worlds	20
	Evil as the waste product of evolution	22
	Evil, the 'bite of non-being'	26
	Evaluation	31
2	The solution by autonomous freedom	36
	'Meonic' freedom: Nikolai Berdyaev	37
	Hardly God at all: Wilfred Monod	39
	Process theology	41
	The powerless God in our midst: Dietrich Bonhoeffer	42
	The ethical vision: Immanuel Kant	44
	The dizzying anxiety of freedom: Soren Kierkegaard	46
	God's withdrawal	48
	The constraints of soul-making: John Hick	51
	Evaluation	55
3	The solution by dialectical reasoning	65
	The dialectics of the abyss: Jakob Boehme	66
	Non-being overcome: Paul Tillich	67
	The dialectics of the cross: Hegel	70
	The cross within God: Jurgen Moltmann	72
	The dialectics of grace: Karl Barth	76
	Evaluation	80
4	Scripture on evil, principally its origin	84
	The evil reality of evil	85
	The universal sovereignty of the Lord	90
	The unadulterated goodness of God and his work	96
	The thorn in reason's flesh	100
	Inscrutability, the cross, hope	102
5	Evil and the kingdom	105
	Evil abolished in the kingdom	105
	The kingdom that has come in Jesus Christ	108
	The persistence and growth of evil	109
	An unforeseen postponement?	111
	The 'dispensationalist' division of history	111
	The liberal school of Albert Schweitzer	113
	The unfolding of the ages	119
	The virulent counter-attack	122
	The necessity of faith	125
	The way of the kingdom	127
	Conclusion	128
	Inscrutability	128
	Light in the darkness	130
	Evil conquered as evil	131
	Notes	134