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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...

This state of alienation is sometimes referred to as evil. This category often is thought to be more readily accessible than sin (the latter being a more theological term), but the two occupy much the same space. Evil is anti-good and so anti-God. Sin would include the conditions and practices associated with the faulty use of human self-determination, faulty because such usage would fail to render glory to God. Both run against God’s purposes, and so both occupy the same domain
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