Download or read book The Problem of Animal Pain written by T. Dougherty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal suffering constitutes perhaps the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God. Considerations that render human suffering theologically intelligible seem inapplicable to animal suffering. In this book, Dougherty defends radical possibilities for animal afterlife that allow a soul-making theodicy to apply to their case.