ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a possible response to the atrocious harm argument one that is not textually identical to the Theodicy, but consistent enough. It demonstrates how this response is grounded in the scholarship of early modern women and provides several clear paths for the theist to enter into dialogue with contemporary atrocity paradigm atheists. The book produces the consequent that was required by the atrocity paradigms argument: a system of overriding goods. It explores a reimagined picture of the actual world a world in which a system of transmuted goods is created by God for humans to alter the consequences of the atrocious harm they perpetuate. The book shows that such a picture is supported by scholarship of women in the early modern period, and that transmuted goods can properly address the system of atrocity provided by contemporary atheists.
