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of good, and later critics such as John Leonard have used this framework to interpret Adam and Eve's loss of original righteousness in the poem.

Modern and contemporary religious thought

In the Bahá'í Faith, 'Abdu'l-Bahá explicitly endorses a privationist view. He argues that "there is no evil in existence: whatsoever God has created He has created good. Evil consists merely in non-existence", giving examples such as death (absence of life), darkness (absence of light), and poverty (absence of wealth).

Modern Christian

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