In this important new book David OConnor discusses both logical and empirical forms of the problem of inscrutable evil perennially the most difficult philosophical problem confronting theism. Arguing that both a version of theism friendly theism and a version of atheism friendly atheism are justified on the evidence in the debate over God and evil OConnor concludes that a warranted outcome is a philosophical dtente between those two positions. On the way to that conclusion he develops two arguments from evil a reformed version of the logical argument and an indirect version of the empirical argument and deploys both against a central formulation of theism that he describes as orthodox theism. God and Inscrutable Evil makes a valuable contribution to contemporary debates in the philosophy of religion.