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The 66 pages that link to Problem of evil, each with the reason it gives.

• Augustine of HippoRelated: Augustine answered it by treating evil as a privation of good rather than an independent substance.

• AtheismRelated: It is a longstanding argument against particular conceptions of a benevolent deity.

• PrayerRelated: Unanswered prayers sharpen questions about suffering and divine goodness.

• Divine providenceRelated: Apparently pointless suffering raises questions about the goodness of providential governance.

• PantheismRelated: Identifying God with the whole universe raises questions about whether divine reality includes evil.

• AgnosticismRelated: It tests whether the available world supports or undermines particular claims about God.

• Divine command theoryRelated: Appeals to divine commands raise questions about how to assess commands amid apparent evil.

• MonotheismRelated: A single sovereign God’s relation to suffering gives this challenge particular force.

• Divine simplicityRelated: Attribute identity sharpens questions about how perfect goodness relates to God's permission of evil.

• Divine hiddennessRelated: It shares the question of how divine goodness fits an apparently troubling world.

• Resurrection of the deadRelated: Future resurrection can be understood as a promise that death and injustice will not have the final word.

• Christian apologeticsRelated: It is a central objection that Christian defenses attempt to answer.

• RevelationRelated: Suffering can challenge claims about what God has disclosed or why divine presence seems hidden.

• OccasionalismRelated: Assigning every event to God sharpens questions about divine responsibility for evil.

• FaithRelated: The problem tests faith in divine goodness against the reality of suffering.

• Euthyphro dilemmaRelated: Both debates test how divine attributes relate to moral standards.

• PanentheismRelated: Process panentheism addresses suffering by limiting divine control and emphasizing God's response.

• Process theologyRelated: Process theology answers the challenge partly by denying that God can prevent every evil unilaterally.

• Creation ex nihiloRelated: If God created all things, the doctrine sharpens questions about evil's origin and status.

• FateRelated: A divinely ordered fate raises questions about why suffering is permitted.

• Religious skepticismRelated: It challenges a central conception of God by examining the reality of suffering.

• Divine justiceRelated: It asks whether a just deity can permit the suffering found in the world.

• Philosophy of religionRelated: It tests whether a central conception of God fits the world's suffering.

• 1755 Lisbon earthquakeRelated: The scale of Lisbon’s suffering made theodicy an urgent public question.

• Divine attributesRelated: It tests whether these attributes can jointly explain the world as it exists.

• GodRelated: It questions whether such a God can coexist with the world's suffering.

• SufferingRelated: It frames suffering as a challenge to belief in a benevolent deity.

• Theistic evolutionRelated: Evolutionary history includes predation, extinction, and suffering, sharpening this theological question.

• Christian philosophyRelated: Its philosophical formulations have repeatedly forced revisions to Christian accounts of providence.

• Christian ScienceRelated: Christian Science addresses evil by denying that it has ultimate reality.

• Classical theismRelated: It tests whether providence and divine goodness fit the world’s suffering.

• HellRelated: The existence of eternal punishment sharpens questions about divine goodness and justice.

• PessimismRelated: It frames one influential question about whether the world can be justified.

• Religious beliefRelated: It presses a central difficulty for belief in a morally perfect deity.

• CandideRelated: The novella’s repeated calamities dramatize this enduring theological problem.

• Pascal's wagerRelated: It is a major evidential challenge not settled by calculating belief's possible rewards.

• Reformed epistemologyRelated: It is a prominent proposed defeater that theistic belief must address.

• The Seventh SealRelated: Plague and innocent suffering sharpen Block’s demand for a meaningful answer from God.

• Creator deityRelated: A benevolent creator's responsibility for a suffering world raises this problem.

• Teleological argumentRelated: Imperfections and suffering complicate claims that nature reveals a benevolent designer.

• AntitheismRelated: It supplies a major argument against certain forms of theism.

• ApologeticsRelated: Theodicies and other defenses respond to this central objection.

• JabriyyaRelated: Attributing every act to divine determination sharpens questions about God's relation to evil.

• Pierre BayleRelated: Bayle made the challenge especially sharp by questioning traditional explanations of suffering.

• An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingRelated: Hume’s discussion of miracles and religious evidence influenced later critiques of natural theology.

• The TygerRelated: The poem asks how one creator could make both gentle innocence and terrifying force.

• Faith and rationalityRelated: It supplies a prominent evidential challenge to theistic belief.

• AcosmismRelated: Treating the finite world as dependent appearance raises questions about the status of suffering.

• Antony FlewRelated: This classic challenge to theism differs from the design evidence Flew later emphasized.

• Criticism of ChristianityRelated: It directly challenges Christian claims about God's nature and the world's suffering.