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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

2025.10.6 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews

Yujin Nagasawa, The Problem of Evil for Atheists, Oxford University Press, 2024, 272pp., $100.00 (hbk) ISBN 9780198901884.

Reviewed by Andrew Loke, Hong Kong Baptist University

This book is a significant contribution to the discussion on the problem of evil and global philosophy of religion. While the problem of evil for atheists is not new, e.g., Moreland and Craig (2003, 552) had argued that ‘If God does not exist, then we are locked without hope in a world filled with gratuitous and unredeemed suffering’, in no other book has this problem been explained in such a systematic, well-organized, and clear manner, covering both Western and Eastern religious perspectives. In Chapters 1 and 2, Nagasawa distinguishes different versions of the problem of evil: Deductive Non-Probabilistic Version, Deductive...