This Reader brings together primary sources from philosophy, theology and literature to chart the many and changing ways evil has been approached and understood, and to examine the diverse implications it has had for belief and unbelief.

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• Will fill a major gap in the publishing market.
  
• Provides primary source readings for courses on religion and evil.
  
• A key issue in religious thought - this book will change the way the subject is taught.
  
• Author is one of the brightest young religious philosophers in America.

Mark Larrimore is Assistant Professor of Religion and Preceptor at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is currently completing a study on the ethics of Leibniz's Theodicy.