Overview: Includes supplementary material: All religions face the challenge of explaining, in view ofGod‘s goodness, the existence of evil and suffering in the world. Theymust develop theories of the origin and the overcoming of evil andsuffering. The explanations in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism,Islam, and Judaism of evil and suffering and their origin, as well asthese world religions‘ theories of how to overcome evil and suffering,differ from one another, but are also similar in many respects. Thehuman person is always considered to be the origin of evil, and alsoto be the focus of aspira
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