Reviews
"...provides a worthwhile introduction, overview, and a continuing practical guide to the ever challenging theme of evil and, entices the reader to probe, ponder, hunger, adventure, and risk for more." - Reading Religion, ...provides a worthwhile introduction, overview, and a continuing practical guide to the ever challenging theme of evil and, entices the reader to probe, ponder, hunger, adventure, and risk for more., "An accessible, lucid examination of the theological problems evil causes as it manifests itself in various forms, this second edition of Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed adds chapters on topics such as Jewish, Christian, and Islamic responses to evil and skeptical theism ... The text is particularly engaging because it wrestles not only with older theodicies but also with modern-day issues that intersect with the notion of evil ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates; professionals." - CHOICE "...provides a worthwhile introduction, overview, and a continuing practical guide to the ever challenging theme of evil and, entices the reader to probe, ponder, hunger, adventure, and risk for more." - Reading Religion, Meister has produced the most comprehensive and accessible book on evil currently available. Whilst most treatments of evil within philosophy of religion revolve around theodicies, Meister gives extensive consideration to the hiddenness of God, to atheistic arguments, and to Hindu and Buddhist responses to evil and suffering; all of which take him into further territory, including that of religious experience and neurological accounts of religious belief. Written in Meister's characteristically clear style, this book will be an invaluable resource for people of all faiths and none., An accessible, lucid examination of the theological problems evil causes as it manifests itself in various forms, this second edition of Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed adds chapters on topics such as Jewish, Christian, and Islamic responses to evil and skeptical theism ... The text is particularly engaging because it wrestles not only with older theodicies but also with modern-day issues that intersect with the notion of evil ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates; professionals.