Off the bat Hick explains that the Process Theodicy does not battle with the difficult dualism that most must accommodate. While many theodicies struggle with the attributes of God being both good and omnipotent whilst having evil in the world, the Process Theodicy believes God is not omnipotent. This claim enables their theodicy focus on the origin of the presence of evil and how god tries to minimize it rather than working to explain evil as a flaw in God’s work.
The Process Theodicy argues that God’s omnipotence is implausible due God’s presence in the universe that he did not create. Hick explains that this containment of God as a being lesser than previously precieved is due to universal laws, or “laws of absolute generality, such that
