ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines and assesses Jonathan Edwards' resolution to the authorship of sin problem. It sets out the authorship problem in the context of the wider problem of evil. The chapter focuses on the contours of Edwards' response to this problem. It designates this problem of the authorship of sin and evil, the AP. One could still be a rational Christian theist and not have an answer to the question raised by the AP. Edwards' theological determinism yields a particularly difficult version of the AP made more difficult by Edwards' thorough method of approaching the problem. If theological libertarians can be shown to be better off than their determinist counterparts with respect to solving the AP, then Edwards is not simply faced with meeting the AP, he is placed at a significant disadvantage in presenting a solution to it. Edwards' central contention here is that the AP is a difficulty which equally attends the doctrine of the Arminians themselves.
