ABSTRACT
The author begins with the Bible for the sake of discovering what resources for addressing evil lie within Christian tradition and its relation to theodicy. The Book of Genesis is often thought of as book about beginning of the world. The presence in Garden of Eden of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the serpent who urges eating from that tree is curious. Job encounters God in a direct fashion that enables Job to perceive in a powerful way God's good governance of creation and absolute trustworthiness. The Gospel narrative of the conception, birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ reveals the kenotic love that marks both the mission of Christ and the nature of the Trinity. Matthew depicts the birth of Christ, the dawning of the new Israel in a context of terrible suffering. Balthasar's account of the immanent Trinity, as a dynamic life of interpersonal love selflessly shared among infinitely distinct divine Persons.
