PhD: Twitter quote 15

PhD: Twitter quote 15

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2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter 

PhD version

However, I can agree with Durston that even if there is no such thing as gratuitous evil, which is my position, large amounts of evil that appear gratuitous will exist. Durston (2000: 79). This would be evil that I would consider unexplainable, humanly speaking, but would not be gratuitous from God’s perspective. 

DURSTON, KIRK (2000) ‘The Consequential Complexity of History and Gratuitous Evil’, in Religious Studies, Volume 36, pp. 65-80. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Twitter version

Gratuitous evil would be unexplainable, humanly speaking, but would not be gratuitous from God’s perspective. 

Twitter version II 

Within my Reformed theology and connected theistic, philosophy of religion, gratuitous evil would be unexplainable, humanly speaking, but would not be gratuitous from God’s perspective.