 French theologian Henri Blocher criticised Hick's universalism, arguing that such a view negates free will, which was similarly important to the theodicy.The Irenaean theodicy was first identified as a form of theodicy by John Hick in "Evil and the God of Love", written in 1966.Hick distinguished between the Augustinian theodicy, which is based on free will, and the Irenaean theodicy, which casts God as responsible for evil but justified in it.