PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Daniel Speak is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University.
Philosophical investigations during the last 50 years have sheda good deal of new light on the ancient problem of evil. DanielSpeak?s judicious book covers all these developments, beginningwith Plantinga?s free-will defense and working through all of themost important contributions to the subject up to the present day.He discusses Rowe?s evidential argument from evil, the skepticaltheists? response to Rowe, Schellenberg?s divine hiddennesschallenge, and much more. This book will be a great resource foranyone interested in the compatibility of God and evil, from truebeliever to die-hard atheist. Dean Zimmerman, Rutgers University In this admirably clear and accessible book, Dan Speak focuseson the strategic. Overviewing discussions among analyticphilosophers since the mid-twentieth century, Speak x-rays thedialetical structure of both defense and theodicy and supports aversion of skeptical theism. Those who want to delve into thelogical and evidential problems of evil and the problem of divinehiddenness will find it an extremely valuable map. Marilyn McCord Adams, formerly, Regius Professor of Divinity,Oxford
