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FREEWILL, FREE PROCESS, AND LOVE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2009

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Of all the philosophical challenges to theism in general and Christianity in particular, the one that Christians take most seriously is the Problem of Evil. It is clearly not logically contradictory to hold that there exists a Loving Ultimate Creator; and nevertheless there is a very substantial amount of evil and suffering in the world. But it is certainly problematic. Deeper scientific understandings of physics and evolution shed some light on this. It is also useful to reflect more deeply on the relationships between love, suffering and creativity.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2009

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1 Much of this paper is based on Questions of Truth and I am very grateful to my co-author John Polkinghorne FRS for our discussions and for permission to use our joint material. www.questionsoftruth.org