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Introduction
Chapter One The Problem of Evil
1.1 The explanation of four Christian doctrines
1.2 The interpretation of the problem of evil
1.2.1 Define the term of“good” and “evil”
1.2.2 Kinds of evil: moral evil and natural evil
1.2.3 Two views of the problem of evil: the logical problem of evil and the evidential problem of evil
1.2.4 Defense and theodicy: two kinds of response to the problem of evil
1.3 Themes in theodicy
1.3.1 Evil is caused by demonic spirits
1.3.2 Evil consists in the limitedness of God
1.3.3 The ultimate harmony solution: all is well or will be well in long run in God's perspective
1.3.4 Evil as privation boni (illusion)
1.3.5 Evil comes from the Fall of Adam
1.3.6 Evil is punishment for wrongdoing
1.3.7 Natural law explanation to explain the existence of natural evil
1.3.8 Human free will to explain moral evil
1.4 Two kinds of theodicies in tradition: Augustinian theodicy and Irenaean theodicy
1.4.1 Augustinian theodicy
1.4.2 Irenaean Theodicy
Chapter Two Richard Swinburne's Free-will Defense Theodicy
2.1 Swinburne's free-will defense in justification for moral evil
2.2 Evaluation of Swinburne's free-will defense
2.3 Swinburne's free-will defense in justification for natural evil
2.4 Evaluation of Swinburne's solution to the problem of natural evil
Chapter Three John Hick's Soul-making Theodicy
3.1 Hick's epistemology: grounds of his theodicy
3.2 Hick's teleology: soul-making as the divine purpose
3.2.1 Human beings' two stages in creation
3.2.2 Hick on moral and natural evil
3.3 Hick's eschatology and universalism
Conclusion: Criticism and Evaluation
1. The common grounds between the two theodicies
2. The sharp difference between the two theodicies
2.1 Religious epistemology
2.2 Eschatology
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