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What about Evil? A Defense of God’s Sovereign Glory is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reconciling the existence of God and evil is a conundrum in Christian theology, and a philosophical approach—rather than a theological one—dominates. Turning to the Bible’s grand storyline, Scott Christensen examines how sin, evil, corruption, and death fit into the broad outlines of redemptive history. He argues that God’s ultimate end in creation is to magnify his glory to his image-bearers,...

has spoken for the weary world: “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”2 Something is not right with the world. This is not the way it is supposed to be.3 Consequently, these collective ills raise the most troubling quandary that we distraught creatures can possibly face. How can the good and almighty God allow evil to coexist in the created order he crafted with such singular beauty? What has become of his good creation? Why has he allowed evil to corrupt the broad
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