1. Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love, trans. J. F. Shaw, available at
http://www.newadvent.org
/fathers/1302.htm (accessed October 27, 2004), I.11. The Enchiridion was composed by Augustine at the request of the little known Roman, Laurentius, who had asked him to write a handbook of Christian doctrine.
2. Epicurus, quoted in Neil Forsyth, “The Origin of ‘Evil’: Classical or JudeoChristian?” Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness 1, no. 1 (January 2002): 20.
3. Kenneth Surin, Theology and the Problem of Evil (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), 27.
4. Marilyn McCord Adams, Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999), 8. Adams also directs the reader to Alvin Plantinga, “Self-Profile,” in Alvin Plantinga, ed. James E. Tomberlin and Peter Van Inwagen (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing, 1985), 38.
5. Marilyn McCord Adams and Robert Merrihew Adams, Introduction to The Problem of Evil, ed. Marilyn McCord Adams and Robert Merrihew Adams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 2.