EVIL AND THE CROSS
By Henri Blocher
Kregel 154 pages
ISBN 0 8254 2076 8
Henri Blocher is a dauntingly well-read French evangelical theologian who can be guaranteed to tackle big issues, as Evil and the Cross (nicely translated by David Preston and first published in English in 1990) demonstrates. (Other books in English by him include Original Sin, Apollos, 1997).
Since 1990, when he was professor of systematic theology at the Faculte Libre de Theologie Evangelique in Vaux-sur-Seine, France, he also has become the Gunther H. Knoedler Chair of Theology at Wheaton College, Illinois. The evil in question is not what is sometimes called natural evil, but the moral evils of the human race (and, I suppose, of the angelic realm, though angels aren't mentioned).
