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Dealing with Evil
Author(s) -
Turner Geoffrey
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-2005.2003.tb06482.x
Subject(s) - politics , theme (computing) , political ponerology , forgiveness , religious studies , law , good and evil , sociology , theology , history , media studies , philosophy , political science , computer science , operating system
Christian philosophy has attributed moral and physical evil to the action of created free will. Man has himself brought about the evil from which he suffers by transgressing the law of God (St Augustine, city of God XII). The evil from which man suffer is, however, the condition of good, for the sake of which is permitted. Thus, “God judged it better to bring good out of the evil than to suffer no evil t exist” (St Augustine enchiridion xxvii).