Facing Evil: Confronting the Dreadful Power Behind Genocide, Terroism, and Cruelty

Paul Woodruff and Harry A. Wilmer, eds.

From slavery to the Holocaust to the destruction of the World Trade Center, the specter of human evil continues to haunt and defy all attempts at explanation. This collection of lectures—given at a symposium on evil by prominent scholars, writers, theologians and philosophers—resonates powerfully as we continue to confront the devastation wrought by even a single individual caught in the grip of evil.