This volume offers a reappraisal of a classic text of European philosophy, Leibniz's Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil (1710). New essays from leading scholars open a window on the historical context of the work and give close attention to its subtle and enduring philosophical arguments. the essays all make interesting contributions to the literature, and there is something to learn from each of them. Many of them are very good, and the best are excellent and likely to make lasting contributions to the topics that they cover. The volume deserves the attention of anyone concerned with the problem of evil in the early modern period, and will doubtless become a standard reference for those who have an interest in the Theodicy or Leibniz's philosophy of religion. Indeed, absent an English-language monograph on the Theodicy, this book probably stands as the best overall introduction to the work in English, albeit at a quite advanced level.