Summary of text [comment] pages 54 and 55

Schoonenberg noted: “Divine causality with respect to evil” must considered in light of God’s transcendent causality.

The notion, that “evil may be a positive entity in and of itself” has been around a long time. It was a key tenet of several non-Biblical religions.

For example, the heresy of the Albigensians displayed a Manichaen dualistic point of view, claiming that good and evil exist in and of themselves.

This notion greatly simplified the world. There were two divinities, one good and the other evil.