“Theological students with a passing acquaintance with Barth likely know he had little use for the enterprise of apologetics, and to the extent that they associate theodicy with apologetics, they may likewise assume that Barth does not offer a substantial treatment of the problem of evil. Wallace contends that while evil was indeed a significant locus in Barth’s theology, it was inadequately developed. This book gestures toward a more robust theology of evil by bringing Barth’s thought into dialogue with other proposals that lead Wallace to offer pastorally oriented correctives to these shortcomings."—Steven R. Harmon, Professor of Historical Theology, Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity