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Book Synopsis1 Introduction: The Problem of Animal Suffering in the Philosophy of Religion.- Part I Versions of the Problem of Animal Suffering.- 2 The Shattered Framework: Christian Theology and the Challenge of Animal Suffering.- 3 Evidential Arguments from Evil.- 4 A Humean Argument from Animal Welfare.- 5 Does God Care about What People Think about God? Revisiting the Problem of Natural Nonbelief.- 6 Animal Suffering and Antitheodicy.- 7 Dissonant Theodicy: Theodicy and Anti-Theodicy in Irresolvable Tension.- Part II Theodicies.- 8 Premodern Theological Interpretations of Creational Suffering.- 9 Evolution and the Goodness of God.- 10 The Darwinian Problem of Evil and Christian Theodicy.- 11 “Red in Tooth and Claw”: Animal Suffering and the Corruption of Nature.- 12 Recent Work on the Neo-Cartesian Response to the Problem of Animal Suffering.- 13 Neo-Thomistic Theodicy.- 14 Soul-Making Theodicy.- 15 Islamic Theodicy.- 16 Judaism and the Suffering of Nonhuman Animals.- Part III The Axiological Status of Non-Human Animal Suffering.- 17 The Role of Emotional Suffering in the Animal Kingdom.- 18 Predatory Animals and Natural Evil.- 19 The Role of Parasitism in the Animal Kingdom.- Part IV Non-Human Animal Minds.- 20 Non-Human Animal Minds and the Problem of Animal Suffering.- 21 Descartes Was Right, about Insects.- 22 Self-Awareness and Personhood in Non-Human Animals.- 23 An Anti-Theological Argument from Suffering.- Part V Analyzing Theodicies.- 24 Theodicy, Anti-Theodicy, and Ethics: Some Considerations.- 25 Christian Evolutionary Theodicies Assessed.
