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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...

The distinction between evil and suffering is an important one, for these terms are not coextensive. There can be evil without suffering, as when the objectives of evil intentions are thwarted. There can be suffering that is not evil, as when a person is imprisoned for committing a serious enough crime to warrant the imprisonment. So a distinction is in order. While the imprisonment of a criminal is a not a happy state of affairs, neither is it a wrong state of affairs. When a person suffers for
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