Defeating Evil: How God Glorifies Himself in a Dark World

Revised, adapted, and condensed for a broader audience, this companion edition to Scott Christensen’s lauded What about Evil? shows how sin, evil, corruption, and death fit into redemptive history. Exploring the storyline of Scripture and addressing practical concerns, Christensen shows that God’s ultimate end in creation is to maximize his glory before his image-bearers by defeating evil through Christ’s atoning work.

Publisher: P & R
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781629959238

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Scott Christensen (MDiv, The Master's Seminary) is the author of What about Free Will? He worked for nine years at the award-winning CCY Architects in Aspen, Colorado: several of his home designs were featured in Architectural Digest magazine. Called out of this work to the ministry, he graduated with honors from seminary and now serves as the associate pastor of Kerrville Bible Church in Kerrville, Texas.

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“The problem of evil maintains its long-held place as the number-one objection to theism in general and Christian theism in particular. Many Christian attempts to address the problem are philosophically driven but biblically and pastorally weak, biblically rich but philosophically and pastorally shallow, or pastorally savvy yet philosophically and biblically misguided. In Defeating Evil, Scott Christensen offers us a ‘greater-glory theodicy’—a rare and compelling trifecta of a biblically profound, philosophically deep, and pastorally uplifting answer to the problem of evil. But best of all, Christensen offers us an answer centered on Christ—God’s ultimate solution to evil.” Thaddeus Williams, Professor of Theology, Biola University and Talbot School of Theology; author, God Reforms Hearts: Rethinking Free Will and The Problem of Evil