The Challenge of Evil: Grace and the Problem of Suffering

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Belief in God in the face of suffering is one of the most intractable

problems of Christian theology. Many respond to the spiritual challenge of evil by

ignoring it, blaming God, or insisting on the inherent meaninglessness of life. In

this book, William Greenway contends that we don’t have to deny our moral selves

by either ignoring evil or abandoning our moral sensibilities toward it. We can open

our eyes fully to suffering and evil, and our own complicity in them. We can do so

because it is only in this full acceptance of the world’s guilt and our own that

we make ourselves fully open to agape, to being seized by love of others and God.

Inspired by the Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and the Christian novelist

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Challenge of Evil lovingly explains how

we can look squarely at the overwhelming suffering in the world and still, by grace,

have faith in a good and loving God.