ABSTRACT
My goal in this chapter is to provide some explanation for this fact and introduce a few of the delicate issues regarding free will that are continuing to emerge from debate over the problem of evil. Of special interest, as the unfolding story will explain shortly, is the fact that theistic responses to the problem of evil have provoked substantial interest in the viability of libertarianism about free will. I will conclude, therefore-although all too brie y-by considering the controversial possibility of a viable compatibilist response to the problem of evil.
