Persecuting witches in the name of reason. An analysis of western rationality / Hedwig Meyer-Wilmes -- No society without violence? / Gregory Baum -- Between theory, practice and imagination / Hermann Ha?ring -- Overcoming evil. The ambivalence of Biblical notions of salvation in history and the present / Paulo Suess -- Satan and antichrist--Necessary symbols? / Rosemary Muir Wright -- Attraction of apocalypse and the evil of the end / Catherine Keller / Mystery of evil and the hiddenness of God. Some thoughts on Simone Weil / Alexander Nava -- Overcoming evil / Hans-Eckehard Bahr -- Theodicy: dissonance in theory and praxis / David R. Blumenthal -- Saving from evil: salvation and evil today / David Tracy.