Fictions of evil -- Obscene enjoyment -- Job's comforters
In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defence of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artefact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world
Introduction -- - Praying for an earthier Jesus - a theology of flesh - John D. Caputo -- - Deferral - a response to John D. Caputo's The weakness of God - Craig Keen -- - Time, hope, and slumdogs - suffering and creatio ex nihilo - Eric R. Severson -- - Environmentalism - I more than others - Christopher Caldwell -- - Our responsibility for universal evil - rethinking fallenness in ecological terms - Christina M. Gschwandtner -- - Race and hospitality - pursuing racial reconciliation through Derrida's understanding of hospitality - Nathan Crawford -- - When the creature became the creator and other Cartesian nightmares - Heather Ross -- - The epistemology and ethics of hope - Joshua Kira -- - The transcendence and banality of evil - Eric Boynton -- - Thebes revisited - theodicy and the temporality of evil - John Penteleimon Manoussakis -- - God's good as intrinsic and God's good as instrumental - discerning analytical foundations for the problem of natural evil - Brint Montgomery -- - Defending God's decision to create a suffering world - a Thomistic analysis of evil, privation, and foreknowledge - Eric Manchester -- - To be or not to be - relational ontology and the irreality of evil - Timothy Crutcher -- - The problem of evil from a panentheistic perspective - "And there shall be no pain" (Rev. 21:4) - suffering as the price for development - Thomas Klibengajtis -- - Islamic suicide bombing and the question of evil - Geoffrey Karabin