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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,...

his creation—right? And if by some mysterious plot evil should stealthily slip into the universe, he would have reason to exercise his omnipotence to remove it immediately—yes? Alas, evil remains. So what gives? How can this dystopian reality persist in God’s good creation? Although the existence of pain and evil in the world places these two overarching attributes of God under the microscope of human scrutiny, they are not the only divine attributes to suffer the skeptical eye of his creatures.
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