Critique Of The Augustinian Theory Hick
The Augustinian approach is what majority of Christians associate with and relies on the bases that moral evil for humans came from the idea of a “fall” which defines human nature that is seen universal. Hick critiques this theory by stating that God could not create a world with free will, if sin and suffering were not also a part of the creation and lacks the plausibility needed to convince people of when this “fall occurred”. In contrast, the Irenaean approach represents the minority and states the human evil is a process through evolution. It also states that humans are “immature creatures living in a challenging world” (39 Hick). In this theory Hick asks the reader to evaluate our relationship with God and other human beings in order to