Barnhart, J. E.  "Persuasive and Coercive Power in Process Metaphysics."  Process Studies 3, no. 3 (Fall 1973): 153-7.

Abstract

Peter Hare and Edward Madden, criticizing John B. Cobb's view of persuasion as the only moral form of power, tend to confuse persuasion with ineffective control.  Cobb fails to stress that in a tragic world coercion may be morally required, which is the point of Hare and Madden.  But they fail to stress that coercion, by frustrating desire, evokes resentfulness, which reduces the effectiveness of coercion.  Theism, by always raising its moral and aesthetic vision, creates perpetually the problem of theodicy.  [Abstract from The Philosopher's Index]