Divine Providence

Both age-old and pressing in the wake of 9 / 11 is the question of how the existence of God can be reconciled with the existence of radical evil. Swedenborg's masterpiece Divine Providence takes on that question and explains how God's greatest gift to humanity, our freedom, mandates that God permit evil. However, with every evil act comes the possibility of its transmutation into a higher good, and that possibility depends on how it is received by those whom the evil impacts. Swedenborg's a...