God and the Evil of Scarcity

Revisits the question of why a benevolent Creator would permit material scarcity in human existence, which was raised by Thomas Malthus in his celebrated Essay on Population, arguing that scarcity serves as an occasion for God to provide for people through one another and that there are strong metaphysical and scriptural warrants for enacting progressive social policies for a better sharing of the goods of the earth. Simultaneous.