PhD: Twitter quote 24
Twitter version
Scudder comments, if the sovereignty of God is stressed, and evil is still considered to be reality, then this leads to the idea that God causes evil and equals a predetermined plan.
Twitter version II
Scudder deduces that a strong view of God willing evil for the greater good means evil could be understood as not really being evil.
PhD version
Scudder comments that if the sovereignty of God is stressed, and evil is still considered to be reality, then this logically leads to the idea that God causes evil and it is part of a predetermined plan. Scudder (1940: 248). I agree with this notion, but Scudder deduces that a strong view of God willing evil for the greater good means evil could be understood as not really being evil. Scudder (1940: 248). I can understand how a scholar could come to such a conclusion, but a Reformed influenced sovereignty theodicy does not need to agree with this idea which is foreign to both traditional Reformed and conservative theology.
SCUDDER, DELTON, LEWIS (1940) Tennant’s Philosophical Theology, London, Oxford University Press.
2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter
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