Leibniz, Classical Theism, and the Problem of Evil : Why Classical Theism Must Affirm That Our World is the Best of All Possible Worlds (Hardcover)

Introduction??Part 1: Optimism??1. Sufficient Reason for the Best Possible World? 2. Optimal Goodness in the Best Possible World? 3. Good, Evil, and the Will of God? 4. Perhaps the Only Possible World??Part 2: Optimism Renewed??5. Optimism Before Leibniz? 6. Rethinking Leibniz on Freedom? 7. Leibniz’s Theodicy Redux? 8. The Inevitability of Leibniz