I'll give a brief summary of each contribution and then offer some reflections on the value of the volume. This is also why, I think, the collection involves sketches of general approaches rather than detailed treatments of, say, specific defenses the point is to compare big-picture approaches to the problem of evil. (Some, though not all, of the contributors seem to share Trakakis's dissatisfaction with that dialectic.) So the collection leans strongly (though not exclusively) toward approaches to the problem of evil that somehow don't fit that dialectic: toward approaches that either intentionally ignore that conversation altogether (Clack), or rule out all theodicies as a matter of principle, independently of the details of the theodicy (Bishop, Trakakis, Tilley, Gleeson), or who think of the problem of evil as something broader or different than merely an intellectual problem for theistic belief (Bishop, Nagasawa, Gleeson, and arguably Oppy), or who propose meeting the problem of evil by adopting a non-standard (that is, non-Abrahamic) view of God (Bishop, Trakakis, Gleeson). Trakakis) indicates that his goal for the volume is to bring attention to approaches to the problem of evil which break out of the usual dialectic, which he characterizes as a kind of wrestling match between standard (Abrahamic or Abrahamic-like) theists offering defenses or theodicies and naturalists trying to pick apart those individual theodicies. Each article is followed by responses from the other three members of the group and a final response by the original contributor. Trakakis the second, Beverly Clack, Yujin Nagasawa, Terrence W.
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The first includes Eleonore Stump, John Bishop, Graham Oppy, and N.
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This book consists of eight essays, each summarizing an approach to the problem of evil, together with exchanges among the contributors.