The baffling age-old question, if there is a good god, why is there evil in the world? has troubled ordinary people and great thinkers for centuries. god, power, and evil illuminates the issues by providing both a critical historical survey of theodicy as presented in the works of major western philosophers and theologians</br>plato, aristotle, plotinus, augustine, aquinas, spinoza, luther, calvin, leibniz, barth, john hick, james ross, fackenheim, brunner, berkeley, albert knudson, e. s. brighton, and others</br>and a brilliant constructive statement of an understanding of theodicy written from the perspective of the process philosophical and theological thought inspired primarily by alfred north whitehead and charles hartshorne.