Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Topics in Education

Titel: Topics in Education

Stichwort: Augustinus über das Böse: Gott hätte eine andere Welt erschaffen können

Kurzinhalt: 2.6 Not Apart from Evil; God could have created a world without any evil whatever, but thought it better to permit evil and draw good out of the evil

Textausschnitt: 12/2 Again, as I have already remarked, the good is not apart from evil in this life. In his Enchiridion ('Handbook') St Augustine made perhaps one of the most profound remarks in all his writings, and for that matter in the whole of theology, when he said that God could have created a world without any evil whatever, but thought it better to permit evil and draw good out of the evil. We must not forget that what God wants, the world God foreknew from all eternity in all its details and freely chose according to his infinite wisdom and infinite goodness, is precisely the world in which we live, with all its details and all its aspects. This is what gives meaning to a phrase that might at times be considered trite: resignation to the will of God.