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The question of God’s relationship to evil is a long-running one in the history of Christianity, and the term often deployed for this task has been theodicy. The way theodicy has historically been pursued, however, has been problematic on a number of counts. Most significantly, these efforts have generally been insufficiently theological. This work hopes to subvert and reconfigure the theodical...

The “why” question is as ancient as human thought. As soon as individuals and societies posited an account of meaningfulness, they were forced to account for absurdity. And so Epicurus asked the question that often is associated with the idea of theodicy, a question that was stated within modernity by David Hume: “Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing?
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