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The Problem of Evil offers a comprehensive examination of the problem of evil from both technical and ministerial perspectives. Author and acclaimed philosophy professor Jeremy A. Evans treats the history of the problem with fairness, looking at it through contemporary philosophical literature and offering responses to the most substantive arguments from evil. His purpose is to provide holistic...

Christians have generally agreed that evil is not a substance or a thing but instead is a privation of a good thing that God made. A privation of a good is the corruption or twisting of a created thing’s essence or substance.1 Evil, since it is not a thing in itself, is parasitic on the good. There can be good without evil, but there cannot be evil without there being a good upon which it preys. The concept of evil as a
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