Topiques de la question du mal

Abstract

Many questions never receive an answer because they are badly put or put incompletely . So the difficult andever recurring question ofEvil. The hypothesis put forward and the thesis tested is that the problem of evil should be asked in more radical theological terms thon is usually done. Notwithstanding their relevance, the classical topics ofthe Contra Deum ofthe unbeliever or ofthe Pro Deo of Theodicy are insufficiant . Evil has to be carried as far as in Gbd, In Deo, as a question penetrating through God, carried by God. Ii is only after such a real Theo-logical (question about God) movement, that man can once again pick up the question of evil, as Job did, as a Ad Deum, where the accusation of the He is replaced by the questioning ofthe You. At the end ofthis process, the question ofevil is transformed into a Cum Deo, God unveiling Himselfto man as the one who really is, with him, the adversary of evil. So we corne to an inversion : from evil as objection against God, God becomes the objection towards evil. Far from thus being an idealistic solution, the theological resolve may well appear as the closest to what this problem of man, if there is one, demands.