• Chapter 1 – Introduction
  • 1.1 – 1.5: The ‘Good’ and the ‘Groaning’; Evolutionary Theory; Objections: Perhaps There Isn’t a Problem After All; Seeing the Creation Truly; Refining the Problem
  • 1.6 – 1.8: Responses to the Problem of from Darwin Onward; Key Move in Evolutionary Theodicy; My Own Approach: A Compound Evolutionary Theodicy
• Chapter 2 – Roads Not Taken
  • 2.1 – 2.5: Introduction; Creationism and Intelligent Design; God Not the Creator, or Not Benevolent?; The God of Process Theology; Teilhard de Chardin
  • 2.6 – 2.7: Doing Without a Fall from Paradise; Freedom, Suffering, and Love

• Chapter 3: “Strategies in Evolutionary Theology”

• Chapter 4: “An Adventure in the Theology of Creation”
  • 4.1 – 4.3: Introduction; The Suffering of God; Divine Self-Emptying
  • 4.4: Developing a Theology of Evolutionary Creation
  • 4.4 – 4.7: Developing a Theology of Evolutionary Creation; The Human Animal and Its “Selving”; God’s Providential Action in the World; The Significance of the Cross and Resurrection
• Chapter 5 – “Heaven for Pelicans? Eschatological Considerations
  • 5.1 – 5.4: Introduction; Eschatology and Cosmology; Motives for Postulating the Existence of Nonhuman Creatures in a Redeemed Creation; Does an Evolutionary Theodicy Require Redemption of Individual Creatures?
  • 5.5 – 5.6: Exploring a Redeemed Existence for Creatures at the Eschaton; Why Did God Not Just Create Heaven?
• Chapter 6 – “The Call of Humanity”
  • 6.1 – 6.4: Creation Groaning in Travail; The Freedom of the Glory of the Children of God; Humans as Contemplatives of Creation; Human Nature – Scientific and Theological Understandings
  • 6.5 – 6.7: Ethical Kenosis; A Cautionary Word; Possible Callings for Human Beings in Respect of the Rest of Creation
  • 6.8 – 6.9: Priesthood of Creation Reconsidered; Conclusion
• Chapter 7 – “Ethical Proposals and Conclusion”
  • 7.1 – 7.3: Introduction; Eschatological Vegetarianism; Global Justice, Global Warming, and the Glass Abbatoir
  • 7.4 – 7.5: The Ethics of Extinction; Conclusion

Final Thoughts