The goodness of God in view of the facts of nature and the supernatural

A Tufts divinity professor confronts the hardest objection to his denomination's creed: if God is good, why is nature so cruel? Writing after Darwin, Knight takes the facts of struggle, pain, and waste in the natural world seriously and argues that they are compatible with — indeed only finally intelligible under — the goodness of God that Universalism proclaims. A specimen of the denomination's engagement with modern science and liberal theology at the turn of the century.

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