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If God is all-powerful and entirely good and loving, why is there so much evil in the world? Based on a close canonical reading of Scripture, this book offers a new approach to one of the most troubling challenges facing Christian theism: reconciling the Christian confession of a loving God with the realities of suffering and evil. John Peckham offers a constructive proposal for a theodicy of...

of everything (omniscient), and providentially involved in some significant way in governing the course of history (sovereign). Indeed, if God is both all-good and all-powerful, then he must both desire no evil and possess the power to prevent all evil.13 Yet there is horrendous evil all around us. Many thinkers contend that this perceived dilemma can be escaped only by concluding that God is not good or that he is not omnipotent or that he does not exist at all. The free will defense is widely viewed
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