Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- The Need for Trustworthiness and Competence -- Foreshadowing -- Suggested Readings -- 2.The Question: Is There Gratuitous Suffering that Rules Out God? -- The Problem of Gratuitous Suffering -- The Gratuitous Premise -- The Consequence Premise -- The Logical Problem of Suffering -- The Problem of the Inferior Universe -- 3.Possible Theistic Responses to the Question -- The Logic of Responses -- The Five Approaches -- Faith as a Response -- Ignorance -- 4.The Confident Knowledge of God -- What the Approach Says -- Criticisms of the Approach -- Evidence for the Existence of God -- The Design Argument -- The Cosmological Argument -- The Social Argument -- Lessons -- 5.God Permits Gratuitous Suffering -- What the Approach Says -- Criticisms of the Approach -- 6.God's Reasons for Suffering Revealed -- What the Approach Says -- Knowledge -- Free Will -- Soul-Making -- Afterlife -- Original Sin -- Lawfulness -- Motivation --

Contents note continued: Divine Suffering -- Lessons -- 7.Our Inability to See God's Plan -- What the Approach Says -- Criticisms of the Approach -- Modifying the Approach -- Lessons -- 8.God Is Not What You Think He Is -- What the Approach Says -- Conception of God as Unconscious -- Conception of God as Morally Bad -- Conception of God as Morally Unassessable -- Conception of God as Epistemically Deficient -- Conception of God as Weak -- Conception of God as Non-Individual -- Conception of God Involving Analogy -- 9.Warranted and Unwarranted Conclusions.