Sentence examples for explanation of evil from inspiring English sources

Its simplistic explanation of evil does not measure up to the professed aim of Mr. Quesada, to "look at real-life situations and try to find the right metaphor".

In it, he writes that as a theology student in Spain he had been taught that evolution "provided the 'missing link' in the explanation of evil in the world" — a defense of God's goodness and omnipotence, despite the existence of evil.

He also wanted to explore "evil", not the "scientific approach" which was the psychological explanation of "evil".

This at least raises the question of whether our explanations – including explanations of evil – show that freedom is just a myth, or try to avoid and undermine freedom, or simply express our freedom to seek one kind of explanation rather than another.

We therefore search the scriptures for an explanation of that evil.

The classic explanation of the evils of deflation is that it makes individuals and businesses less willing to use money, because the rational way to act when prices are falling is to hold onto cash, which gains in value.

It is an irony that while in his philosophy Khayyam offers a rational explanation for the existence of evil, in his Rubā'iyyāt he strongly condemns the presence of evil and finds no acceptable justification for its presence.

According to Plutarch (417b, De Iside et Osiride 360d f: in Babbitt 1936, 390 391 and 58 61, respectively)., Xenocrates' daimones come in good and bad varieties: they may have had something to do with the explanation of the existence of evil.

The Manicheans proposed a powerful, if somewhat mythical and philosophically awkward explanation of the problem of evil: there is a perpetual struggle between co-eternal principles of Light and Darkness (good and evil, respectively), and our souls are particles of Light which have become trapped in the Darkness of the physical world.

Horror films with delusions of historical grandeur have to strain awfully hard these days to come up with fresh explanations for the origins of evil.

This lump of lead replaces "Joan of Arcadia," an entertaining show that actually grappled with issues of life and death and the existence of God and of evil; the explanation that Leslie Moonves, the chairman and C.E.O. of CBS, gave when he cancelled "Joan" was "I think talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God".