Author: Peckham, John
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Rick Shrader‘s Review:
This book by Peckham defends God’s attribute of love (omnibenevolence) in its application to free will and the presence of evil in the world. He writes, “In brief, I argue that God’s love properly understood is that the center of a cosmic dispute and that God’s commitment to love provides a morally sufficient reason for God’s allowance of evil, with significant ramifications for understanding divine Providence as operating within what I call covenantal rules of engagement” (p. 4). Also, ” The Creator could not be held responsible for the free evil choices that rational creatures made, since God did not causally determine these choices. Rather, the misuse of angelic and human free will is the cause of evil. The free will argument is thus in keeping with a significant stream of Christian tradition and is often associated prominently with Augustine, particularly as put forth in his early work On Free Choice of the Will” (p. 5).