The Problem of Evil

N. T. Wright has just had his book, Evil and the Justice of God, published by Intervarsity Press. This book is the result of five lectures that he gave at Westminster Abbey in 2003 and a television program that was shown in England in 2005. He has dedicated his book to all those who died in the attacks on 9/11/01, from the tsunami in 2004, from the hurricanes in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in August of 2005, and from the earthquake that occurred in Pakistan and Kashmir in October of 2005. "They are a reminder," he writes in the preface, "that the 'problem of evil' is not something we will 'solve' in the present world, and that our primary task is not so much to give answers to impossible philosophical questions as to bring signs of God's new world to birth on the basis of Jesus' death and in the power of his Spirit, even in the midst of 'the present evil age.'"

Since evil and its existence has came into the spotlight in our society since 9/11, and since N. T. Wright is such a scholarly and yet accessible author, I plan to blog on his book for the next couple of weeks and share with you what he has to say. I hope that you will benefit from this as much as I do.