Chad Meister is Director of the Philosophy Program and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bethel College, Indiana, USA. His published and forthcoming publications include: Introducing Philosophy of Religion (Routledge), Christian Thought: An Introduction (co-authored with James Stump; Routledge), Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues (co-edited with Paul Copan; Wiley-Blackwell), The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity (editor; OUP), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion (co-edited with Paul Copan; Routledge), The Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology (co-edited with Charles Taliaferro; CUP)

• Preface; Introduction; 1 What is Evil?; Moral evil; Natural evil; Degrees of Evil; Evil and suffering; 2 The Problem of Evil: Whose Problem is It?; What is the problem of evil?; Problems for theists; A problem for non-theists?; The problem of good; 3 The Logical Problem of Evil; The logical problem; The logical problem rebutted?; 4 The Free Will Defense; The function of a defense; The free will defense defended; A compatibilist response; 5 The Evidential Problem of Evil; Evidence and God; Evidential problems of evil; 6 Skeptical Theism; What is skeptical theism?; Moral objections to skeptical theism; Rethinking skeptical theism; 7 Theodicies; Augustine's free will theodicy; Hick's Irenaean soul-making theodicy; A recent process theodicy; On reconstructing theodicy: the best of the best; 8 Evil and Suffering in Hinduism and Buddhism; Hinduism, evil and suffering; Buddhism, evil and suffering; Thinking globally about evil and suffering; Conclusion; Glossary; Name Index; Subject Index.

"Meister's Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed is a  brilliant, lucid, fair, concise guide to philosophical reflection on the nature of evil.  The work is scholarly but without pedantry or jargon and, given its length, the scope of this work is terrific, for it includes not only the competing claims of theism and secular naturalism, but also the broader context of assessing evil from the standpoint of Hinduism and Buddhism." -- Charles Taliaferro, Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, USA