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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...

expansive and deep within the fabric of the created order’s being, some have opted to call evil a mystery as well. We have already mentioned how labeling evil a “problem” does not take evil seriously enough; now, we will say that labeling evil a “mystery” does not take God seriously enough. Because evil is parasitic on the good, it makes little sense to subsume both evil and God, the summum bonum or “ultimate good,” under a single term like “mystery.” God is an inexhaustible, eternal, infinite mystery
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