Pittenger, Norman. Goodness Distorted. Bath, England: A. R. Mowbray, 1970.

Abstract

The author, an American scholar, now of King's College, has written this book in two parts - the first, and longer, deals with the question of evil, a question which every human being and every Christian believer must face. The second part is an attempt to "take love seriously" as a criterion which Christians must employ when they seek to understand the great affirmations of their faith in God, in Christ, in man's "redemption" (as we put it), in the meaning of the Christian Church, and in the possibility of "growth in grace." The two topics are intimately related, since it is the fact of evil which presents our greatest obstacle to the conviction that love is indeed central in life and in the world; while the conviction that (in spite of appearances to the contrary) love is central makes it possible for us to face evil and triumph over it.

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