Within our discussion of monotheism, however, we must notice at once the effect of adding ‘covenantal’ to ‘creational’ and ‘providential’ as modifiers of ‘monotheism’. This move shifts the large theological question, of the coexistence of a creator god and an evil world, on to a different plane. The question is no longer a static one, as though the world simply existed in a settled state; it is dynamic and relational. If there is an answer to the problem of evil it will include divine action within history, more specifically, within the history of the world as it has been affected by evil.
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