Freedom and the problem of evil › Primary reading

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  • Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom, and Evil (1974), part I.a, especially the sections on actualizing possible worlds, transworld depravity, natural evil, and probability. The 1977 Eerdmans edition reprints the work.
  • Alvin Plantinga, The Nature of Necessity, chapter IX, "God, Evil, and the Metaphysics of Freedom," for the more technical modal treatment.
  • J. L. Mackie, "Evil and Omnipotence," for the logical challenge with which Plantinga engages.

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