[lit-ideas] Re: The Problem of Evil
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:48:42 -0500
"Phil Enns" writes:
: John Wager wrote:
:
: "The Catholic "move" is to say that God can't do evil, so in that sense
: is NOT all-powerful, but in that sense only."
:
: I am not aware of any orthodox Catholic thinker who has said that God is
: not all-powerful, in any sense. I would be interested in knowing which
: Catholic thinkers would make such a claim. As I understand it, the
: Catholic 'move' is to say that the claim that God can't do evil is
: ultimately incoherent.
More than fifty years ago I found myself worrying about this in
a course in Medievial Intellectual History. I wrote something
like "God can't or won't do evil" and the grader crossed out
the verbs and wrote, as I recall, "doesn't."
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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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