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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book to be a very helpful introduction to the topic. It is a hard thing to come to grips with the ongoing and endemic nature of evil. I appreciated his candid assessment of evil, it being both worse and not as bad as we make it out to be.<br/><br/>I and was particularly struck by his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39606095">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As N.T. Wright continues to gain prominence in Christian circles as a thinker and theologian I appreciate his concise, understandable, but not simplistic book, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25709.Summa_Theologica_5_Vols_" title="Summa Theologica (5 Vols.) by Thomas Aquinas">Evil and the Justice of God</a>.  <br/><br/>Wright creates a great overarching paradigm which, while not tackling the philosophical questions ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13181931">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong> wow </strong>.  i mean <em> <strong> wow  </strong><br/><br/>i think my favorite part of this book was the lengthy section on what Christians can be doing in order to partake of God's justice and fight against evil.  really REALLY good.</em>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[N.T. Wright throws a curveball to contemporary discussions of the problem of evil.  This is a must-read for anyone bothered by the question, &quot;How can a good God let evil happen?&quot;.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[N.T. Wright (Anglican bishop of Durham, England) is a wonderfully articulate writer and a challenging theologian.]]></body>
    
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