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The Eighteenth century was when Leibniz’ book Theodicy was published as was previously noted, and this era of history was when much of the modern debate concerning the problem of evil and theodicy began.

LEIBNIZ, G.W. (1710)(1998) Theodicy, Translated by E.M. Huggard Chicago, Open Court Classics.

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The Eighteenth century was when Leibniz’ book Theodicy was published and this era of history was when much of the modern debate concerning the problem of evil and theodicy began.

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Theistic and Christian theodicy are therefore largely a response to initial Seventeenth, and primarily Eighteenth century and forward, secular criticisms of the theology and philosophy of God within religion and Christianity. Hille (2004: 22). 

HILLE, ROLF (2004) ‘A Biblical-Theological Response to the Problem of Theodicy in the Context of the Modern Criticism of Religion’, in Evangelical Review of Theology, Volume 28, Number 1, pp. 21-37. Carlisle, UK, Evangelical Review of Theology.

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Theistic and Christian theodicy are therefore largely a response to initial Seventeenth, and primarily Eighteenth century and forward, secular criticisms of the theology and philosophy of God within religion and Christianity.

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However, I can agree with Durston that even if there is no such thing as gratuitous evil, which is my position, large amounts of evil that appear gratuitous will exist. Durston (2000: 79). This would be evil that I would consider unexplainable, humanly speaking, but would not be gratuitous from God’s perspective. 

DURSTON, KIRK (2000) ‘The Consequential Complexity of History and Gratuitous Evil’, in Religious Studies, Volume 36, pp. 65-80. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

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Gratuitous evil would be unexplainable, humanly speaking, but would not be gratuitous from God’s perspective. 

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Within my Reformed theology and connected theistic, philosophy of religion, gratuitous evil would be unexplainable, humanly speaking, but would not be gratuitous from God’s perspective.

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God could have made significantly free human beings, or human like beings who would have been perfectly morally good & would not commit wrong actions. To not create such beings is not a sign of a lack of power, or moral failure. 

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I reason that God could have, if he wished, made significantly free human beings, or human like beings who would have been perfectly morally good and would not commit wrong actions. God’s choice not to create such beings, in my mind is not a sign of a lack of power, or moral failure, but rather the use of his own perfect and significantly free will for good purposes. 

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