Citation Information for “Fyodor Dostoevsky,
‘The Problem of Evil’”
Philosophy of Religion
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Citation Information for “Fyodor Dostoevsky,
‘The Problem of Evil’”
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“[I]f God did not grant us the ability to sin and cause affliction to him and to one another, we could not have the kind of free and autonomous existence necessary to enter into a relation of love with God and with one another.”
Vincent Brümmer, Brümmer on Meaning of the Christian Faith, ed. John R. Hinnells (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006) 224.
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