Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Medieval Era Writers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain, Writings on Evil by Doctors of the Church

Can good be the cause of evil? Can the supreme good, God, be the cause of evil? In the paragraphs below, Thomas Aquinas examines these two facets of the problem of evil, concluding that God is the cause of the just penalty for sin (the ‘evil’ of death), but God is not the cause of […]

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