The heart of Lonergan’s transposition as regards his answer to the question Cur Deus cruciatus (to parphrase St. Anselm) is the Law of the Cross. According to this law, God’s infallible wisdom has conceived and God’s infinite goodness has ordained that the reign of sin is fittingly eradicated, not by coercive power but by Christ making our cross his own, so that the possibility of justice among sinners would be realized through the transformation of evil into good by charity. As an intrinsic intelligibility of redemption, this law presupposes what Augustine so eloquently expressed by saying that God “judged it better to bring good out of evil than to allow nothing evil to exist.”2