Book contents
- Participation in God
- Participation in God
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Works of Thomas Aquinas: Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I Participation and Causation
- II The Language of Participation and Language as Participation
- III Participation and the Theological Story
- 8 Participation and Christology
- 9 Participation and Creaturely Action
- 10 Evil as the Failure of Participation
- 11 Redemption I
- 12 Redemption II
- IV Participation and the Shape of Human Life
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
- Index of Biblical References
- Index of Works of Aquinas
10 - Evil as the Failure of Participation
from III - Participation and the Theological Story
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 August 2019
- Participation in God
- Participation in God
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Works of Thomas Aquinas: Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I Participation and Causation
- II The Language of Participation and Language as Participation
- III Participation and the Theological Story
- 8 Participation and Christology
- 9 Participation and Creaturely Action
- 10 Evil as the Failure of Participation
- 11 Redemption I
- 12 Redemption II
- IV Participation and the Shape of Human Life
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
- Index of Biblical References
- Index of Works of Aquinas
Summary
Within a participatory framework of metaphysics, evil is characteristically seen as a matter of privation. If all being, characterfulness, and action are had by creatures as a participation in, or from, God, then evil is a failure or occlusion of that participation. In this chapter, evil-as-privation is explored in terms of evil as washed-out, senseless, and always taking a form that is strictly relative to the particular good of the particular creature. The chapter ends with a discussion of the non-concurrence of God in evil, and how it might be that evil is possible. Evil is seen to have the character of non-relation between creatures.
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- Participation in GodA Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics, pp. 239 - 259Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019