EVIL AND THE JUSTICE OF GOD
By N.T. Wright
SPCK. 118 pages
ISBN 0 281 05788 5
This is an interesting and stimulating little book — but in the end frustratingly incomplete.
What is the biblical answer to the problem of evil? In the first half of this book, Tom Wright argues that, while there is very little in the Bible about the origin of evil, it is nevertheless the story of God solving the ‘problem’ of evil — as he acts to defeat it and bring in a new heaven and a new earth. What’s more, victory in that conflict has already been secured on the cross. You can find a similar argument towards the end of Henri Blocher’s Evil and the Cross (Apollos, 1994), but Wright’s treatment is more accessible.
