While some debates over ideas seem light years removed from real life, this is not the case with the question of evil. Doesn't everyone ask it when they protest against violence and war, against illness and death? The question does not spare Christians. Which of them has never wondered, in the face of suffering, for example, why God—the all-powerful God of love—has allowed sin to have a hold on his creatures?
While this book does not claim to resolve the question of evil, it makes an original Christian contribution to the debate. After evaluating the solutions commonly proposed by theologians and philosophers, it in turn questions Scripture. From the opaque mystery of evil, it leads us to the luminous mystery of the Cross, the response of God's love to the anguished questions of humankind.