Hardy, God and Problem of Evil
Modern age is characterized among other things by extreme obtrusiveness of evil. Acute perception or cognizance and evil - evil within and evil without – in diverse manifestations deeply affected him and his relationship with the ground of all goodness – God. Yet in the wasteland – that immense panorama of waste and futility that modern life is, the traditional belief in the goodness of God and man has lost credence. Modern man fears God dead, or impotent or absent or on leave. Modernism as the search for alternative values, the humanized God, God as superman presumes that traditional theistic worldview is no longer credible. Modern man’s pessimism, absurdism, agnosticism and paganism and his loss of belief in Grace, Salvation or Heaven are all attributable to his acute sensitivity to evil and consequent loss of traditional belief in Divine Goodness. He feels with Arnold that there is no help for pain. Having felt disenchanted with or alien...