This paper considers briefly the approach to the problem of evil by Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, and John Hick and argues that none of these approaches is entirely satisfact
There is a lot of badness around. And many have concluded that there is, therefore, no God. Why? Because God is commonly said to be omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-kno
At least in the western tradition nothing so affects our attitude to God as our recognition of evil and suffering. An important factor in the modern bourgeois indifference to God h
The epistemic question posed by evil is whether the world contains undesirable states of affairs that provide the basis for an argument that makes it unreasonable to believe in the
Evil behavior is morally wrong behavior that is particularly egregious. The following observation readily brings out this point. A person who never committed a single morally wrong
In this context, ‘evil’ is given the widest possible scope to signify all of life’s minuses. Within this range, philosophers and theologians distinguish ‘moral evils’ such as war
Declaring the power of salvific suffering, the Apostle Paul says: "In my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church"(1).
Let us take up again the text of the First Letter of Peter to which we referred at the end of the previous catechesis:
Evil may be of two sorts: natural and moral. The first concerns events which though not directly attributable to human agents cause harm and suffering. Disease, earthquakes, famine, genetic defects, tsunamis, etc. are all examples of the natural evils, though where they can be traced to human agency and specifically to intention or neglect moral evil may also be involved. In itself it is not so much concerned with effects as with motivations and intentions though actions may be judged evil where they issue from general malevolence not only from particular bad intentions. Theologically the problem of evil and suffering is how to reconcile badness (natural or moral) with the theistic claim that the world is the creation of an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good God.