Bart Ehrman's popular 'Jesus Interrupted' is now coming out on paper back and I'm letting you know cause of some ulterior motives. You can read my original review here. You can also pick up a copy of Ehrman's book here. The real reason I'm bringing up this release is because I'll get my hands on another Ehrman book called 'God's Problem' which discusses the issue of theodicy (problem of good v. evil). Why is this important?

I appreciate Ehrman's contribution to the dialogue of early Christian theology and scripture. He provides some necessary questions that should be answered. The reason he has wound up in his place is largely because of the issue of good and evil and why evil triumphs. I'm not about to try to enter into a blogging war with Ehrman cause if he were to engage me I'd be on the short end of the stick. However, NT Wright is a worth adversary (or perhaps dialogue partner is a better term) and he does articulate important and crucial questions to Ehrman's propositions that he hasn't successfully answered (namely how resurrection plays into the 'answers' of good v. evil.)

So I want to re-read Ehrman and then re-read Wright's book 'Evil and the Justice of God' and comment on both. A nice entry point to review the issue of theodicy IMO.