Contents

pp v-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction: The Anatomy of Evil

pp 1-16

PART I - HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EVIL

pp 17-18

1 - Two Thousand Years and No New God

pp 19-44

2 - Identifying Good and Evil

pp 45-58

3 - Kant and Radical Evil

pp 59-74

4 - Uprooting Evil and the Building of Ethical Communities

pp 75-80

5 - The Reality of Radical Evil

pp 81-90

6 - Roads to Hell

pp 91-110

PART II - CONFRONTING EVIL IN OUR DIVIDED WORLD: ON GENOCIDE, SELF-DESTRUCTION, AND WAR

pp 111-112

7 - The Banality of Evil: Failing to Think

pp 113-118

8 - Ordinary People and Extraordinary Vices

pp 119-132

9 - Are Wars Inevitable?

pp 133-146

10 - From Relative to Absolute Evil

pp 147-154

11 - Killing in Vietnam: What Have We Done to Our Soldiers?

pp 155-164

12 - Thou Shalt Not Kill

pp 165-168

PART III - FACING THE DARKNESS WITHIN: ON OUR SPIRITUAL CRISIS

pp 169-170

13 - Searching for Self-Knowledge and Divine Wholeness

pp 171-176

14 - Love and Cruelty: A Blue Spot in the Middle of the Hurricane

pp 177-182

15 - Goodness at the Heart of Being

pp 183-196

16 - We Are Prodigals in a Distant Land: An Essay on Thomas Merton

pp 197-204

17 - Recovering Paradise: Thomas Merton on the Self and the Problem of Evil

pp 205-212

18 - Exposing the Deceitful Heart: A Monk’s Public “Inner Work”

pp 213-220

PART IV - PORTRAYALS OF EVIL IN ART

pp 221-222

19 - Lamentations and Losses: From New York to Kabul

pp 223-240

20 - Evil as Mystery: Primal Speech and Contemporary Poetry

pp 241-248

21 - The Trial of Man and The Trial of God: Job and Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor

pp 249-260

22 - The Resurrection of Hell

pp 261-272