Professor Sewell grapples admirably with a question that surely has vexed every thoughtful theist. His answers, however, are not completely satisfactory inasmuch as they suggest that God should not be held fully responsible, and that much of the world’s suffering is caused by human beings rather than by God. More satisfactory answers become possible if the question is considered in a different context. The theological problem of pain assumes the existence of an extra-cosmic God. If, instead, God is immanent, the question is no longer how God came to admit within His creation a suffering and an evil to which He Himself is immune, but how He came to admit these things within Himself. Cruelty to others is one thing; self-infliction of suffering, I being the sole Existence, is quite another.