Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies B · 1RB0
Specification 2.8, 1.8 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
Revise: Solutions to the Problem of SufferingAugustine understood evil as a privation of good: goodness is absent or corrupted, rather than evil being a separate substance God created. Cruelty, for example, corrupts the loving way people ought to treat one another. Responsibility for wrongdoing therefore lies with creatures who misuse freedom, not with God creating evil as something good.
- Revise: Solutions to Evil and Suffering
The absence or lack of goodness; Augustine understood evil in this way rather than as a separate thing created by God.