What makes these works stand out on the shelf of theodicies which mankind has been building for millennia is that they were written for the benefit of the layman and the academic alike. His fascination with the topic led him to write many essays, poems, and books about the subject, with The Last Battle looking at it through the lens of fantasy and A Grief Observed being a candid journal that found Lewis writing from within the very storm of tragedy itself. The Problem of Pain would be Lewis’s first formal expedition into the dim forest of theodicy, a journey he would continue to document, in one way or another, for the rest of his life. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.’ ‘If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what He wished.
Lewis called this “the problem of pain” and explained it to the layman like this: In his Summa, Thomas Aquinas recognized that the problem of evil was perhaps the most potent objection one could make to the goodness or even the existence of God.
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