Theodicy

Here are entered works that attempt to vindicate the wisdom and goodness of God in the creation and government of the world, and to rebut the charge that these are brought into question by the existence of evil and sin.

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• Good and evil
• God

• Theodicy -- Comparative studies
• Theodicy -- Early works to 1800
• Plagues of Egypt

• Evil, Problem of (Theology)
• God -- Permissive will
• God -- Will, Permissive
• Permissive will of God
• Problem of evil (Theology)

• If Only I Understood Why, by Pinchas Winston (HTML at neveh.org)
• Der optimismus und pessimismus in der jüdischen religionsphilosophie. Eine studie über die behandlung der Theodicee in derselben bis auf Maimonides, von dr. H. Goiten. (Berlin, Mayer & Müller, 1890), by Hirsch Goitein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The problem of evil: being an attempt to shew that the existence of sin and pain in the world is not inconsistent with the goodness and power of God, (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1920), by Peter Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conquering and to conquer / by Frank Weston. (London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918), by Frank Weston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Versuch einer Geschichte der Meinungen über Schicksal und menschliche Freiheit von den ältesten Zeiten an bis auf die neuesten Denker, von J.C.G. Werdermann. (Leipzig, S.L. Crusius, 1793), by Johann Günther Karl Werdermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal. (Berlin : Eichler, 1840), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal. (Amsterdam, 1747), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la connaisance de Dieu. (Paris, Jules Gervais, 1881), by A. Gratry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The goodness of God in view of the facts of nature and the supernatural, by George T. Knight ... (Boston, The Universalist Publishing house, 1904), by George Thomson Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four sermons on the wisdom of God in the permission of sin, by Joseph Bellamy. (Morris-town [N.J.] Printed by Henry P. Russell, for Cornelius Davis, N. York, 1804), by Joseph Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the divine goodness, relative to the government of moral agents, particularly displayed in future rewards and punishments. Translated from the French of Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre, formerly minister of Chaux-de-Fond. (Walpole, N.H., Printed for Thomas & Thomas, by D. and T. Carlisle, 1801), by Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• A theodicy; or, Vindication of the divine glory, as manifested in the constitution and government of the moral world. By Albert Taylor Bledsoe. (New York, Carlton & Phillips, 1854), by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritik des Pessimismus : Versuch einer Theodizee / von Gustav Küssner. (Halle-Saale : Heynemann'sche Buchdruckerei (F. Beyer), 1888), by Gustav Küssner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The science of natural theology; or, God the unconditioned cause, and God the infinite and perfect as revealed in creation. By Rev. Asa Mahan, D.D. (Boston, Henry Hoyt, 1867), by Asa Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theodicy; essays on divine providence. Translated with some omissions from the Milan edition of l845. (London : Longmans, Green, 1912), by Antonio Rosmini (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dissertation on divine justice, or, The claims of vindicatory justice asserted. : In this work that essential property of the divine nature is demonstrated from the sacred writings, and clearly defended against Socinus and his followers: likewise, the necessary exercise thereof; together with the indispensable necessity of the satisfaction of Christ for the salvation of sinners is established against various celebrated writers. / Now first translated from the original Latin of John Owen, sometime Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford. With a recommendatory preface by John Stafford, and others. (London : Printed for and sold by L.J. Higham, No. 159, St. John street, Clerkenwell, and J. Murgatroyd, No. 73, Chiswell Street, [1770?]), by John Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais de theodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme, et l'origine de mal. (Lausanne, M.M. Bousquet, 1760), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théodicée; thèses de métaphysique chrétienne. (Louvain : C. Fonteyn; Paris : V. Lecoffre, 1885), by A. H. H. Dupont (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thoughts on the divine goodness, relative to the government of moral agents, particularly displayed in future rewards and punishments ... Translated from the French of Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre, formerly minister of Chaux-de-Fond. (Bath, Printed; Hartford: Re-printed by Elisha Babcock, 1794), by Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the knowledge of God, a study of the chief theodicies, by A. Gratry . Translated by Abby Langdon Alger, with an introduction by William Rounseville Alger. (Boston, Roberts brothers, 1892), by A. Gratry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the divine goodness : relative to the government of moral agents, particularly displayed in future rewards and punishments ... / translated from the French of Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre. (Montpelier [Vt.] : Printed by G. W. Hill, 1828), by Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cheering views of man and Providence, drawn from a consideration of the origin, uses, and remedies of evil. By Warren Burton. (Boston, Carter, Hendee and Co., 1832), by Warren Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A theodicy, or, Vindication of the divine glory, as manifested in the constitution and government of the moral world / by Albert Taylor Bledsoe. (New York : Carlton & Phillips, 1853), by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur la théodicée du p. Thomassin, de l'Oratoire / par Louis Lescoeur. (Paris : W. Remquet, 1852), by Louis Zozime Élie Lescoeur (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hardening of Pharaoh's heart : a sermon delivered before the University at Lewisburg on the day of prayer for colleges, February 22d, 1883 / by George Dana Boardman. (Philadelphia : Allen, Lane & Scott's Print. House, 1883), by George Dana Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The God that Jesus saw / by W. Garrett Horder. (London : Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1921), by W. Garrett Horder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deismus, Pantheismus und natürlicher Theismus; kritische Betrachtungen über die Gotteslehre und Theodicee in der neueren Philosophie und Begründung des natürlichen Theismus nebst Entwicklung der dazu gehörigen Theodicee. (Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Theismus-Verlag, [1909]), by Karl Mühlenhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Death not life ... : a review of Dr. E. Beecher's conflict of ages and John Foster's letter / by Jacob Blain. (Buffalo : The author, 1868), by Jacob Blain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Optimism : the lesson of ages / written by Benjamin Blood. (Boston : Bela Marsh, 1860), by Benjamin Paul Blood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A theodicy; or, Vindication of the divine glory, as manifested in the constitution and government of the moral world. By Albert Taylor Bledsoe. (New York, Carlton & Phillips, 1856), by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Problem des Bösen oder die Theodice / von H.C.W. Sigwart. (Tübingen : C. Osiander, 1840), by Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théodicée chrétienne, ou Comparaison de la notion chrétienne avec la notion rationaliste de Dieu. (Louvain, C.J. Fonteyn, 1844), by Henri-Louis-Charles Maret (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crook in the lot, or, A display of the sovereignty and wisdom of God in the afflictions of men, and the Christian's deportment under them / by Thomas Boston. (New York : Robert Carter, 1848), by Thomas Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mystery; or, Evil and God by John Young. (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1856), by John Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Botanik in Beizeihung zur Theodicee / von Fr. Lorinser. (Regensburg : G.J. Manz, 1882), by Franz Lorinser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zoologie in Beziehung zur Theodicee / von Fr. Lorinser. (Regensburg : G.J. Manz, 1879), by Franz Lorinser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Theodicee / von G. W. Leibniz ; Uebersetzt und erläutert von J. H. von Kirchmann. (Leipzig : E. Koschny, 1879), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die philosophischen lehren in Leibnizens Théodicée, von Adelheid Thönes. (Halle a.S., Max Niemeyer, 1908), by Adelheid Thönes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The justification of God; lectures for war-time on a Christian theodicy, (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1917), by Peter Taylor Forsyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die theodicee im 18. jahrhundert : entwicklungsstufen des problems vom theoretischen dogma zum praktischen idealismus / von Hans Lindau. (Leipzig : W. Engelmann, 1911), by Hans Rudolf David Lindau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil, by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, trans. by E. M. Huggard, contrib. by Austin Farrer (Gutenberg ebook)

• Das Problem des Bösen oder die Theodice / von H.C.W. Sigwart. (Tübingen : C. Osiander, 1840), by Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Basic writings : Proslogium ; Monologium ; Cur Deus homo ; Gaunilo's In behalf of the fool / St. Anselm ; translated by S.N. Deane ; with an introduction by Charles Hartshorne. (La Salle, IL : Open Court, c1962,), by Saint Anselm (page images at HathiTrust)

• Observations upon the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians. In which is shewn the peculiarity of those judgments, and their correspondence with the rites and idolatries of that people. (London, Printed for T. Hamilton and R. Ogle; Edinburgh, J. Ogle; [etc., etc.], 1810), by Jacob Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Dark Face of Reality: A Study of Emergent Awareness, by Martin Israel (HTML at u-net.com)
• The Fallen Star, or, The History of a False Religion; Also, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Lord Brougham, ed. by Peter Eckler (Gutenberg text)
• Form and Good in Plato's Eleatic Dialogues: The Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Kenneth Dorter (HTML at UC Press)
• God and the Challenge of Evil: A Critical Examination of Some Serious Objections to the Good and Omnipotent God, by John L. Yardan (HTML at crvp.org)
• The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, by Paul Carus (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Life's Beautiful Battle: or, The Human Soul Before Pain (Westfield, NJ: The Lloyd Group, c1910), by J. Wm. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Meaning of Good: A Dialogue (third edition, 1900), by G. Lowes Dickinson (Gutenberg text)
• The Nature of Goodness, by George Herbert Palmer (Gutenberg text)
• Two of Me: The Struggle with Sin, by David R. Wilkerson (HTML at tcspulpitseries.org)
• Two Treatises of Proclus, the Platonic Successor: The Former Consisting of Ten Doubts Concerning Providence, and a Solution of Those Doubts; and the Latter Containing a Development of the Nature of Evil (London: Printed for the translator and sold by W. Pickering, 1833), by Proclus, trans. by Thomas Taylor, contrib. by Victor Cousin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Good and evil; a study in Biblical theology, (New York, Chicago [etc.] Fleming H. Revell company, [c1918]), by Lorin Woart Batten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das princip des bösen rach den begriffen der griechen. Von F. A. Märcker. (Berlin, F. Dümmler, 1842), by F. A. Märcker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral uses of dark things. By Horace Bushnell. (London, R. D. Dickinson, 1880), by Horace Bushnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gesprache über das böse. Aufgezeichnet von Johann Friedrich Herbart ... (Königsberg, A.W. Unzer, 1817), by Johann Friedrich Herbart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das problem des bösen. Eine metaphysische untersuchung von A.L. Kym. (München, T. Ackermann, 1878), by Andreas Ludwig Kym (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le problème du mal; étude philosophique. Résumé du cours fait à Genève et à Lausanne en 1867 et 1868, par Ernest Naville ... (Lausanne, G. Bridel, 1868), by Ernest Naville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, ou Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la providence: suivis d'un traitée sur les sacrifices; par M. le comte Joseph de Maistre ... (Paris, Cosson, 1821), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle / by T. De Witt Talmage ; illustrated. (Chicago : Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co., 1903), by T. De Witt Talmage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral uses of dark things. By Horace Bushnell. (New York, C. Schribner & company, 1868), by Horace Bushnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur l'origine de l'idée de justice et de l'dée du bien, par Paul Lafargue ... (Paris, V. Giard & E. Brière, 1900), by Paul Lafargue (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Begriff der sittlichen Unvollkommenheit bei Descartes und Spinoza / von Johannes Müller. (Leipzig : Akademische Buchhandlung (W. Faber), 1890), by Johannes Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The philosophy of evil. Showing its uses and its unavoidable necessity; by a series of familiar illustrations drawn from a philosophical examination of the most startling evils of life. Interspersed with moral, interesting and useful reflections, drawn from the book of the laws of nature ... (Philadelphia, G.B. Zieber, 1845), by Joseph S. Silver (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'idée de bien, essai sur le principe de l'art moral rationnel. (Paris, Félix Alcan, 1908), by Albert Bayet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dissertation on liberty and necessity, pleasure and pain. Reproduced from the 1st ed. With a bibliographical note by Lawrence C. Wroth. (New York, The Facsimile text society, 1930), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The meaning of good; a dialogue, by G. Lowes Dickinson. (London, Brimley Johnson & Ince, 1906), by G. Lowes Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The theory of evil in the metaphysics of St. Thomas and its contemporary significance. (Washington : Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1948), by Mary Edwin DeCoursey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Problem des bösen bei Fichte ... (Jena, Frommannsche Hof-buchdr. (H. Pohle), 1898), by Wassil Nikoltschoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La cité du mal; ou, Les corrupteurs du siècle, par L.F. Jéhan ... (Paris, A. Bray, 1859), by Louis François Jéhan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fallen angels, a disquisition upon human existence, an attempt to elucidate some of its mysteries especially those of evil and of suffering, by one of them. (London, Gay and Bird, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin of evil : and other sermons preached in St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens / by Alfred Williams Momerie. (Edinburgh : W. Blackwood and Sons, 1891), by Alfred Williams Momerie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies of good and evil : a series of essays upon problems of philosophy and life / by Josiah Royce. (New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1915), by Josiah Royce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rise and the fall; (New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The meaning of good : a dialogue. (London : R. Brimley Johnson, 1902), by G. Lowes Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The problem of evil: being an attempt to shew that the existence of sin and pain in the world is not inconsistent with the goodness and power of God, (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1920), by Peter Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'oeuvre de Joseph de Maistre ... (Tours, A. Cattier, [1910]), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il valore supremo. (Genova, A. F. Formiggini, 1913), by Luigi Valli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• O bezwzglȩdności dobra. (Warszawa, Gebethner i Wolff, 1919), by Władysław Tatarkiewicz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plotins abhandlung (Borna-Leipzig, Druck von R. Noske, 1916), by Ernst Schröder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Lehre vom Übel in den grossen Systemen der nachkantischen Philosophie und Theologie ... (Strassburg i. E., Elsass-Lothringische druckerei, 1903), by Otto Willareth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les soirées de Saint-Pet́ersbourg, extraits.: Traité sur les sacrifices. (Londres : J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; Paris, É. Mignot, [1912]), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Böse im Einklange mit der weltordnung Dargestellt; oder: Neuer Versuch über den Ursprung, die Bedeutung, die Gesetze und Verwandtschaften des Uebels. (Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1827), by Bernard Heinrich Blasche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christ and the dramas of doubt, studies in the problem of evil, by Ralph Tyler Flewelling. (New York, Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati, Jennings & Graham, [c1913]), by Ralph Tyler Flewelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory of the moral system : containing a plan of the universe in its relations to the creation, sin, punishment and redemption of moral beings / by E.W. Cook. (Burlington, Vermont : Free Press Association, 1890), by E. W. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Aurelius Augustinus Metaphysik : im Rahmen seiner Lehre vom Übel / dargestellt von Konrad Scipio. (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1886), by Konrad Scipio (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les soirées de Saint Pétersbourg : ou, Entreteins sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence : suivis d'un traité sur les sacrifices / par M. le comte Joseph de Maistre. (Anvers : Société Catholique pour le Royaume des Pays-Bas., 1821), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history and philosophy of evil : with suggestions for more ennobling institutions, and philosophical systems of education / by Andrew Jackson Davis. (Boston : B. Marsh, 1866), by Andrew Jackson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physiologie du bien et du mal; de la vie et de la mort, du passé, du présent, de l'avenir. Par H. Azaïs. (Paris, Desforges, 1836), by P. H. Azaïs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Backlog studies / by Charles Dudley Warner ; with twenty-one illustrations by Augustus Hoppin. (Boston : J.R. Osgood and Co., 1873), by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Academic questions, treatise De finibus, and Tusculan disputations, of M.T. Cicero, with a sketch of the Greek philosophers mentioned by Cicero. Literally translated by C.D. Yonge, B.A. (London, H.G. Bohn, 1853), by Marcus Tullius Cicero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life, a poem in three books; descriptive of the various characters in life; the different passions, with their moral influence; the good and evil resulting from their sway; and of the perfect man. Dedicated to the social and political welfare of the people of the United States. By William Branch, junior ... (Richmond: From the Franklin Press. W. W. Gray, Printer, 1819), by William Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great exorcism / by Arthur Crane. (San Francisco : Arthur Crane, c1915), by Arthur Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg ; ou, Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence, suivies d'un traité sur les sacrifices, par le comte J. de Maistre. (Lyon, J. B. Pélagaud, 1854), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The goodness of God in view of the facts of nature and the supernatural, by George T. Knight ... (Boston, The Universalist Publishing house, 1904), by George Thomson Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gospel for a world of sin / by Henry Van Dyke. (New York : Macmillan, 1900), by Henry Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to Soame Jenyns, Esq., occasioned by his Free enquiry into the nature and origin of evil. To which are add, three discourses. I. On conscience. II. On inspiration. III. On a paradisiacal state. By the Rev. R. Shepherd. (Oxford, S. Parker, 1768), by R. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anti-universalist, or, History of the fallen angels of the Scriptures : proofs of the being of Satan and of evil spirits, and many other curious matters connected therewith / by Josiah Priest ; embellished with twelve engravings. (Albany : J. Munsell, 1839), by Josiah Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Is the devil a myth? by C. F. Franklin. (New York, F. H. Revell Co., 1913), by C. F. Wimberly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Begrebet angest : en simpel psychologisk-paapegende overveielse i retning af det dogmatiske problem om arvesynden / af Virgilius Haufniensis [pseud.] (Kjøbenhavn : C.A. Reitzel, 1855), by Søren Kierkegaard (page images at HathiTrust)
• If I were God / by Richard Le Gallienne ... (New York (46 East Fourteenth Street) ; Boston (100 Purchase Street) : Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, c1897), by Richard Le Gallienne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Des Aurelius Augustinus Metaphysik : im Rahmen seiner Lehre vom Übel dargestellt. von Konrad Scipio. (Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1886), by Konrad Scipio (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die ansicht des modernen pessimismus über den ursprung der übel dieser welt ... (Bayreuth, Ellwanger, 1893), by Christian Wirth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Verwandtschaft Leibnizens mit Thomas v. Aquino in der Lehre vom Bösen. (Jena, Fromann, 1892), by Hermann Koppehl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Gewissen in seinem Zusammenhange mit den Ideen des Rechts und des Guten / von Th. Welsch. (Neustadt a.d. Haardt : D. Kranzbühler, 1881), by Th Welsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Begriff und wesen des uebels ... (Halle d.S., Plötz'sche buchdruckerei, 1880), by Hugo Ottomar Lorenz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg; ou, Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence, suivies d'un traité sur les sacrifices. (Lyon, J.B. Pélagaud, 1850), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unity of good. (Boston : E. J. Foster Eddy, [1891]), by Mary Baker Eddy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les soirées de Sain-Pétersbourg : ou, Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence. Suivis d'un traité sur les sacrifices / [Éditeur: S. V.]. (Paris : Impr. de Cosson, Librairie grecque, latine et française, 1821), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg; ou, Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence, suivies d'un traité sur les sacrifices, par le comte J. de Maistre. (Lyon, Paris, J.B. Pélagaud, 1870), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The problem of evil in Plotinus, by B. A. G. Fuller. (Cambridge [Eng.] University press, 1912), by Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The nature of goodness. (Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1903), by George Herbert Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life's dark problems : or, is this a good world? / By Minot J. Savage. (New York ; London : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by Minot Judson Savage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Gordian knot : a story of good and of evil / By Shirley Brooks. (London : R. Bentley, 1860), by Shirley Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gospel for a world of sin; a companion-volume to "The gospel for an age of doubt", by Henry Van Dyke ... (New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1904), by Henry Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The problem of evil in Plotinus by B. A. G. Fuller ... (Cambridge, Eng, University press, 1912), by Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The problem of evil; a criticism of the Augustinian point of view. (Chicago, The Open court publishing company; [etc., etc.], 1909), by Marion Le Roy Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Begriff des Bösen in Kants Kritizismus und seine Bedeutung für die Theologie / Otto Petras. (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1913), by Otto Petras (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 'Life's mystery'. (Philadelphia : Henry Longstreth ..., 1873), by William Thomas Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Tullii Ciceronis de finibus bonorum et malorum, libri quinque, ex recensione Joannis Davisii ... cum ejusdem animadversionibus et notis integris ... (Oxonii, E typographeo Clarendoniano, 1809), by Marcus Tullius Cicero (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the origin of evil. By Dr. William King ... Tr. from the Latin, with large notes. To which are added, two sermons, by the same author, the former concerning divine prescience, the latter on the fall of man. (Cambridge, Printed for W. Thurlbourn, 1739), by William King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cheering views of man and Providence, drawn from a consideration of the origin, uses, and remedies of evil. By Warren Burton. (Boston, Carter, Hendee and Co., 1832), by Warren Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundzüge der Criminal-Psychologie, oder, Die Theorie des Bösen in ihrer Anwendung auf die Criminal-Rechtspflege / von Joh. Christ. Aug. Heinroth. (Berlin : F. Dämmler, 1833), by Johann Christian August Heinroth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg : ou, Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence, suivies d'un traité sur les sacrifices, par le comte J. de Maistre. (Lyon, Pelagaud, Lesne et Crozet, 1836), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg : ou, Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence, suivies d'un traité sur les sacrifices / par le comte J. de Maistre. (Lyon : J.B. Pélagaud, 1845), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The duel. (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1906), by Coulson Kernahan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moral uses of dark things, Horace Bushnell... (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1893), by Horace Bushnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conflict of good and evil in our day : twelve letters to a missionary / by F. D. Maurice. (London : Smith, Elder, 1865), by Frederick Denison Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the devil and the idea of evil, from the earliest times to the present day / by Paul Carus. (Chicago, The open court publishing company; [etc., etc.], 1900), by Paul Carus (page images at HathiTrust)
• La mort et le diable; histoire et philosophie des deux negations suprèmes, par Pompeyo Gener ... Précédé d'une lettre a ̀l'auteur, de E. Littré (Paris, C. Reinwald, 1880), by Pompeyo Gener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La muerte y el diablo: historia y filosofía de las dos negaciones supremas, por Pompeyo Gener ... Precedido de un prologo de E. Littré. Ed. elzeviriana decorada por Apeles Mestres. (Barcelona, D. Cortezo y compe., 1884-85), by Pompeyo Gener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Anti-universalist : or history of the fallen angels of the Scriptures : proofs of the being of Satan and of evil spirits : intended as a refutation of the three main points of Universalism, namely, that there is no hell after death; no devil or Satan as a being; and no future day of final judgment / by Josiah Priest ; embellished with twenty-two engravings. (Albany : J. Munsell, 1837), by Josiah Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian view of moral evil : a lecture, delivered in Paradise Street Chapel, Liverpool, on Tuesday, April 30, 1839 / by James Martineau. (Liverpool : Willmer and Smith, [etc.], 1839), by James Martineau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The freewill of man and the origin of evil : a lecture. (London : J. Speirs, [Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1881 ;), by William Cooper Howells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Daemonologia sacra: or, A treatise of Satan's temptations in three parts. (Edinburgh, Printed by Thomas and John Turnbull, 1800), by Richard Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gospel for a world of sin : a companion-volume to "The gospel for an age of doubt" / by Henry Van Dyke. (New York : The Macmillan co. ; London : Macmilland & co., ltd., 1899), by Henry Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The nature of goodness, by George Herbert Palmer. (Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1903), by George Herbert Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Right is might and other sketches / by the author of Peter Parley's tales. (New York : Sheldon, Blakeman, 1856), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dissertation on liberty and necessity, pleasure and pain, reproduced from the first edition, with a bibliographical note by Lawrence C. Wroth. (New York, The Facsimile text society, 1930), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miserias humanas, folleto segon ; per distingir sas compras y ventas morals de sas pillardas y altras cosas ; Oliver Rafael. (Palma : Impr. de la V. de Villalonga ;, 1861), by Rafael Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miserias humanas de tot l'añ, ; ó trempóns, embrollos y matutas de tots els sitgles per fer aclucar ets uys á uns, y férlos badar an ets altres ; Oliver Rafael. (Palma : Impr. de la V. de Villalonga ;, 1861), by Rafael Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• A free inquiry into the nature and origin of evil. In six letters to --. (London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1758), by Soame Jenyns (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the origin of evil. By Dr. William King ... Tr. from the Latin, with large notes. To which are added, two sermons, by the same author, the former concerning divine prescience, the latter on the fall of man. (Cambridge, Printed for W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer [etc., etc.], 1758), by William King (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the origin of evil. By Dr. William King, late Lord Archbishop of Dublin. Tr. from the Latin, with notes. To which is added, a sermon by the same author, on the Fall of man. (London, Printed for R. Faulder and T. and J. Merril, 1781), by William King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les soirées de Saint-Pet́ersbourg : ou, Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence, suivis d'un Traité sur les sacrifices. (Paris : Garnier frères, [1815]), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• An enquiry into the cause and origin of moral evil : in which the present state and condition of mankind is considered and explained upon the true principles of morality and revelation, and the objections of the ancient and modern defenders of the Manichean scheme, particularly Mr. Bayle, fully answered, being the substance of eight sermons preached at the parish church of St. Mary le Bow in the year 1720 at the lecture founded by the honourable Robert Boyle / by John Clarke. (London : Printed for J. Knapton, 1721), by John Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the origin of evil. By Dr. William King, late Lord Archbishop of Dublin. Tr. from the Latin [by E. Law] with large notes ... To which is prefix'd a dissertation by J. Gay concerning the fundamental principle and immediate criterion of virtue. As also, the obligation to, and approbation of it. With some account of the origin of the passions and affections. (London, Printed for W. Thurlbourn, 1731), by William King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le problème du mal ; sept discours. (Genève : Librairie Cherbuliez, 1868), by Ernest Naville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg; ou, Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la providence: suivies d'un traité sur les sacrifices; par m. le comte J. de Maistre ... (Bruxelles, Meline, Cans et compagnie, 1857), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das princip des bösen nach den begriffen der Griechen / von F.A. Märcker. (Berlin : F. Dümmler, 1842), by F. A. Märcker (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the duration of evil : an essay. (London : Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature of evil considered in a letter to the Rev. Edward Beecher ... By Henry James. (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1855), by Henry James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tusculan questions of Marcus Tullius Cicero in five books / Translated by George Alexander Otis. (Boston : James B. Dow, 1839), by Marcus Tullius Cicero (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Tulli Ciceronis De finibus bonorum et malorum : libri quinque / recensuit et enarrauit Io. Nicolaus Maduigius. (Hauniae [Copenhagen] : Impensis Librariae Gyldendalianae [F. Hegel], 1839), by Marcus Tullius Cicero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber das Böse / von Heinrich Ritter ... (Kiel : Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1839), by Heinrich Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beneficence of design in the problem of evil : vindicated by the law of causation in the physical construction of matter ; Tenth Bridgewater treatise / by a journeyman. (New York : [s.n.], 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The divine efficiency and moral harmony of the Universe : proved from reason and scripture / by a pastor. (Boston : James M. Usher, 1854), by Obadiah H. Tillotson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gravenhurst, or, thoughts on good and evil / by William Smith. (Edinburgh : William Blackwood and Sons, 1862.), by William Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new philosophy ... (London, Saunders and Otley, 1847-49) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whatever is, is right. (Boston, Berry, Colby, [c1860] 1861), by A. B. Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crook in the lot, or, A display of the sovereignty and wisdom of God in the afflictions of men, and the Christian's deportment under them / by Thomas Boston. (New York : Robert Carter, 1848), by Thomas Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mystery; or, Evil and God by John Young. (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1856), by John Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ministry of evil : an examination of the popular bitter-sweet theology [Delivered before the literary societies of the Methodist General Biblical Institute, Concord, N.H., Tuesday evening, June 7, 1859] (New York : Carlton & Porter, 1859), by William Fairfield Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• A modern Job : an essay on the problem of evil / by Étienne Giran, with introduction by Archdeacon Lilley, authorised translation by Fred Rothwell. (Chicago London : The Open court publishing company, 1916), by Étienne Giran (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The problem of evil, Tr. from the French of M. Ernest Naville ... by John P. Lacroix ... <The only authorized translation> (New York, Carlton and Lanahan; Cincinnati, Hitcheock and Walden [etc.], 1871), by Ernest Naville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Lehre vom uebel bei Leibniz, seiner Schule in Deutschland und bei Kant ... (Strassburg i. E., Buchdr. C. & J. Goeller, 1898), by Otto Willareth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The science of evil. (Topeka, Kan. : Crane & Byron, 1871), by Joel Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethics and moral tolerance. (New York, Macmillan, 1934), by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jenseits von Gut und Böse : Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft. (Leipzig : C.G. Naumann, 1895), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Up the Baltic, or Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark : a story of travel and adventure / by William T. Adams (Oliver Optic). (Boston : Lee and Shepard ; New York : Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1871), by William T. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bear and forbear, or, The young skipper of Lake Ucayga / by Oliver Optic ; illustrated. (Boston : Lee and Shepard ; New York : Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, [1870, c1869]), by Oliver Optic (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day. (Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.; London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1899), by Paul Carus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The meaning of good : a dialogue / by G. Lowes Dickinson. (Glasgow : J. Maclehose, 1901), by G. Lowes Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The problem of evil; an introduction to the practical sciences, by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson ... (London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1887), by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eghts aghandotsʻ / Ezněkay vardapeti Koghbatsʻwoy. (Tʻifliz : Tparan N. Aghaneani, 1914), by Koghbatsʻi Eznik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theodizee bei Seneca. (Erlangen, Druck der Universitätsbuchdr. von E.T. Jacob, 1914), by Hermann Steiner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies of good and evil; a series of essays upon problems of philosophy and life. (Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1964 [c1898]), by Josiah Royce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of good and evil: a series of essays upon problems of philosophy and of life, by Josiah Royce ... (New York, London, D. Appleton and company, 1915), by Josiah Royce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan, by Ellen Gould Harmon White (Gutenberg ebook)

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