ABSTRACT
The arguments of David Hume and J. L. Mackie give us a good sense of how the problem of evil is typically used by atheists to make a case against theism. Alvin Plantinga first addressed the problem of evil and the free-will defense in God and Other Minds. Atheologians, from Hume's Philo to J. L. Mackie, have at times seemed quite confident that these propositions, each of which is essential to theism. Even if Plantinga's account of freedom seems stronger than that of Mackie, a Christian theist may well feel that we have hardly begun to talk about the nature of evil and God's relationship to evil. Any compelling theodicy must engage the content of what Christian's believe about the God of Jesus Christ. Marilyn Adams helps us to complete transition from philosophy of religion especially in her use of Moltmann's trinitarian theology. The thought of these authors on evil marks a transition from philosophical analysis of theism.
