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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
That which is profoundly immoral, wicked or wrong; the term can also describe causes of suffering.
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Paper 2
Something considered profoundly morally wrong, especially deliberate cruelty or serious harm.
Revise: Good and Evil Intentions and ActionsEvil describes profound moral wrongdoing, particularly deliberate cruelty or serious harm. Murder, abuse and terrorism are examples. Calling an action evil does not necessarily mean claiming that the devil directly caused it.
Paper 1
Explain why evil challenges belief in an all-powerful, all-loving God; simply listing God's qualities does not explain the problem.
Distinguish Augustine's explanation of evil through the misuse of free will from Irenaeus and Hick's explanation through moral development.
Test an explanation against both moral and natural evil. Human choices explain violence more directly than earthquakes.
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Serious wrongdoing or harm; in discussions of the problem of evil, the term includes suffering arising from both human actions and natural causes.
It helps to distinguish two kinds of evil. Moral evil results from human choices, such as violence, theft or cruelty. Natural evil is suffering arising from natural causes, such as earthquakes or disease.