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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...

worked like machines—would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other.… And for that they must be free.”57 Second, this understanding challenges the view that (actualized) evil is itself necessary for some greater good. Whereas the free will defense is compatible with such a claim, the theodicy of love set forth in this book contends that God never desires or needs evil. Rather, God
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