| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| Chapter One The Problem of Evil | 第16-39页 |
| ·The explanation of four Christian doctrines | 第16-19页 |
| ·The interpretation of the problem of evil | 第19-25页 |
| ·Define the term of "good" and "evil" | 第19-20页 |
| ·Kinds of evil: moral evil and natural evil | 第20页 |
| ·Two views of the problem of evil: the logical problem of evil and the evidential problem of evil | 第20-24页 |
| ·Defense and theodicy: two kinds of response to the problem of evil | 第24-25页 |
| ·Themes in theodicy | 第25-32页 |
| ·Evil is caused by demonic spirits | 第25-26页 |
| ·Evil consists in the limitedness of God | 第26页 |
| ·The ultimate harmony solution: all is well or will be well in long run in God's perspective | 第26-28页 |
| ·Evil as privation boni (illusion) | 第28-29页 |
| ·Evil comes from the Fall of Adam | 第29-30页 |
| ·Evil is punishment for wrongdoing | 第30页 |
| ·Natural law explanation to explain the existence of natural evil | 第30-31页 |
| ·Human free will to explain moral evil | 第31-32页 |
| ·Two kinds of theodicies in tradition: Augustinian theodicy and Irenaean theodicy | 第32-39页 |
| ·Augustinian theodicy | 第32-36页 |
| ·Irenaean Theodicy | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Two Richard Swinburne's Free-will Defense Theodicy | 第39-52页 |
| ·Swinburne's free-will defense in justification for moral evil | 第41-44页 |
| ·Evaluation of Swinburne's free-will defense | 第44-47页 |
| ·Swinburne's free-will defense in justification for natural evil | 第47-49页 |
| ·Evaluation of Swinburne's solution to the problem of natural evil | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Three John Hick's Soul-making Theodicy | 第52-66页 |
| ·Hick's epistemology: grounds of his theodicy | 第53-55页 |
| ·Hick's teleology: soul-making as divine purpose | 第55-62页 |
| ·Human beings' two stages in creation | 第55-56页 |
| ·Hick on moral and natural evil | 第56-62页 |
| ·Hick's eschatology and universalism | 第62-66页 |
| Conclusion: Criticism and Evaluation | 第66-75页 |
| 1. The common grounds between the two theodicies | 第66-71页 |
| 2. The sharp difference between the two theodicies | 第71-75页 |
| ·Religious epistemology | 第71-72页 |
| ·Eschatology | 第72-75页 |
| Bibliography | 第75-78页 |
| 指导教师评语 | 第78页 |
