An overview of patristic theodicies / Paul L. Gavrilyuk --
Theodicy in apocalyptic thought: from ancient visions to (post)modern nightmares / John W. Martens --
The suffering of martyrdom: Greek perspectives in the fourth and fifth centuries / James C. Skedros --
Learning through experience: the pedagogy of suffering and death in Irenaeus / John Behr --
The enemies of God: demons and the persecuting emperors in Lactantius / Dennis P. Quinn --
Christus victor in the work of Ephrem, Narsai, and Jacob of Serug / Gary A. Anderson --
Greek patristic perspectives on the origins of social injustice / Nonna Verna Harrison --
Sympathetic philosophy: the Christian response to suffering according to John Chrysostom's Commentary on Job / Douglas Finn --
John Chrysostom on the man born blind (John 9) / Nonna Verna Harrison --
The deaths of Macrina and Monica in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina and Augustine's Confessions: the female philosopher and the problem of Christian grief / Regina L. Walton --
Evil, suffering, and embodiment in Augustine / David G. Hunter --
Theodore of Mopsuestia and the pedagogy of destruction / Eric Phillips --
The Word and his flesh: human weakness and the identity of Jesus in Greek patristic christology / Brian E. Daley, SJ --
Suffering impassibly: Christ's passion in Cyril of Alexandria's soteriology / J. Warren Smith --
"The impassible suffers" / Kallistos Ware, Metropolitan of Diokleia.