Herbert Mccabe's Evil And Omnipotence: Course Analysis

I believed my understanding of Christianity at the start of our course to be fairly strong. My mother had us go to mass everyday up to high school and I felt I was knowledgeable on Christian topics like evil, sin, and God as a whole. Throughout this course, I have learned through discussion and text that I have only just scratched the surface of what our faith must bring. I have found that I am not alone in several the questions that plague my daily life. I now realize that even the greatest theologians struggle with how little they actually understand, and that I was misguided I my grasp on the vastness of our Christian faith. Throughout our discussion, a couple key text and discussion made an impact on shaping my newfound understanding of religion. These works allowed me to see points of view I never considered before and helped me explore my own religious contemplation deeper. The first text that really stood out to me, due to its abstract thought, was Herbert McCabe’s “Evil and Omnipotence.” “Evil and Omnipotence” had possibly the greatest effect on my learning in this course, it is the text that got me to ask the most questions and really challenged me on my knowledge of evil and its appearance in

I liked some of the ideas that she brought about, but the length and reading of the text left me with numerous questions and often confused. With this in mind, I still really resonated with the relaxed view on sin and how it is inevitable. I agreed with this idea, I think we sometimes get so caught up in the how and why we sin that we overanalyze. Taking a step back and seeing sin as a necessary step towards salvation was something that I had not considered too much before. I always saw it as something we must eradicate as much as possible, and still this is true, but we cannot completely remove it, and remembering that brings a sort of calming realization over