Abstract
The revival of interest in the problem of evil has coincided with a popular concentration on the holocaust. The two may not be connected. Evil as a theological problem or stumbling block in the religious life continually re-emerges because it is never really solved. The dilemma evil poses looms up more decisively in a modern era just because many want to ban evil and be convinced of human progress. Like Marx, they want to let men bear their own responsibility for evil without calling on God. It is partly, then, the enormity of the destruction of the holocaust, plus our growing disillusionment with modern notions of progress or human evolution, that has brought evil back as a problem.