Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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