The challenge of evil :Grace and the problem of suffering

Includes index.

The spiritual challenge of evil -- Modern western evasions of evil -- Unwitting evasion: suffering and indignant rejection of God -- Salvation after the death of God: Nietzsche -- Biocentrism and faces: deep ecology and the land ethic -- A telling confession: Aldo Leopold and the wolf -- Agape and the paradise of yes -- Concerning reality: primordially and ultimately, yes -- Concerning others and ourselves: primordially and ultimately, yes -- Fyodor Dostoevsky and joy eyes wide open to evil -- A cautionary tale: Iris Murdoch and the death of the atomistic I -- Awakening in Dostoevsky: Markel and the Brothers Karamazov -- Grace and the paradise of yes -- Death's gift to life: living now eternally.