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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The "Good" and the "Groaning" | |
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| Evolutionary Theory | |
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| Objections: Perhaps There Isn't a Problem After All | |
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| Seeing the Creation Truly | |
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| Refining the Problem | |
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| Responses to the Problem from Darwin Onward | |
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| A Key Move in Evolutionary Theodicy | |
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| My Own Approach: A Compound Evolutionary Theodicy | |
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| Roads Not Taken | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Creationism and Intelligent Design | |
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| God Not the Creator, or Not Benevolent? | |
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| The God of Process Theology | |
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| Teilhard de Chardin | |
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| Doing without a Fall from Paradise | |
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| Freedom, Suffering, and Love | |
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| Strategies in Evolutionary Theodicy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Good-Harm Analyses | |
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| The Centrality of a Developmental Approach to the Goods and Harms of Evolution | |
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| A Focus on the Suffering of the Individual Creature | |
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| God's Co-Suffering with the Creature | |
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| An Adventure in the Theology of Creation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Suffering of God | |
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| Divine Self-Emptying | |
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| Developing a Theology of Evolutionary Creation | |
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| The Human Animal and Its "Selving" | |
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| God's Providential Action in the World | |
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| The Significance of the Cross and Resurrection | |
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| Heaven for Pelicans? Eschatological Considerations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Eschatology and Cosmology | |
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| Motives for Postulating the Existence of Nonhuman Creatures in a Redeemed Creation | |
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| Does an Evolutionary Theodicy Require Redemption of Individual Creatures? | |
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| Exploring a Redeemed Existence for Creatures at the Eschaton | |
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| Why Did God Not Just Create Heaven? | |
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| The Call of Humanity | |
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| Creation Groaning in Travail | |
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| The Freedom of the Glory of the Children of God | |
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| Humans as Contemplatives of Creation | |
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| Human Nature-Scientific and Theological Understandings | |
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| Ethical Kenosis | |
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| A Cautionary Word | |
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| Possible Callings for Human Beings in Respect of the Rest of Creation | |
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| Preisthood of Creation Reconsidered | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Ethical Proposals and Conclusion | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Eschatological Vegetarianism | |
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| Global Justice, Global Warming, and the Glass Abbatoir | |
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| The Ethics of Extinction | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |