Augustine's Theodicy Scholars Views

Question 1

Brian Davies

Answer 1

Evil is not properly a substance but “a gap between what there is and what there ought to be”

Question 2

Plantings

Answer 2

Genuine free will requires the possibility that humans can choose evil

Question 3

H. McCabe

Answer 3

Something is evil if it doesn’t live up to what is expected or it is an absence of what we expect to be there

Question 4

Schleiermacher

Answer 4

Logical error - how can a perfect world go wrong, Adam and Eve must have had some knowledge of evil to be able to choose it