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In this examination of the questions posed by the problem of evil, John Feinberg addresses the intellectual and theological framework of theodicy. Beginning with a discussion of the logical problem of evil, he interacts with leading thinkers who have previously written on these themes.

Imagine a world with no rationally necessary laws. Nothing about this world has to be the way it is, for nothing about it is inherent in its very structure. The only necessity and the only law in this universe is God’s will.1 If God wants something to be so, whatever it is, it will be so. As a result, by the light of pure reason alone, we could never know what the rules are in any area of life. Instead, whatever can be known about physics, epistemology, and ethics
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