ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how one might transpose the traditional thinking and dissolve the 'problem of evil' instead of trying to solve the problem of evil along traditional lines. The main consequence is in traditional theism's inability to justify its central claims about God's attributes and God's relationship to human freedom and evil. The chapter examines an underlying theme in Marian and Santiago Sia's recent novel The Fountain Arethuse, and see that this theme is a transformed version of the traditional approach to the problem of evil. The basis for the Sias' novel is the Whiteheadian/Hartshornean approach to philosophy and theology, called 'process philosophy' or 'process theology'. Arethuse and From Suffering to God both sprang from within the philosophical and theological horizon offered by the Whiteheadian/Hartshornean synthesis of premodern, modern and postmodern intuitions. Arethuse grew spontaneously from the soil of these issues, and was written after the Sias completed writing From Suffering to God.
