Is God good? In the shadow of mass disaster, great minds have argued the toss
- Written by Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
Ruins of the Tower of St Roch, or Tower of the Patriarch, following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas.Wikimedia CommonsIn classical Western theism, God is said to be both good and all-powerful. So how do we square natural disasters – global pandemics, earthquakes, tsunamis, famines, bushfires, and so on – with a God...





