Religious Studies A-Level
Privatio Boni
What Privatio Boni means in Religious Studies A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Privatio Boni
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Latin for 'a privation of good'. Augustine's definition of evil, which states that evil is not a created substance but is the absence or corruption of the good that God created.
Topics that use Privatio Boni
- Philosophy of Religion (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Epistemic Distance
- Eschatological Verification
- Gratuitous Suffering
- Mystical Experience
- Numinous
- Principle of Credulity
- Reductionism
- Soul-Making
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