id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
expositions-131	none	A Reply to My Critic	2009	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1022	46	62	I acknowledge: 1) that what is at question is, put precisely, whether evil has independent or metaphysical existence; 2) that Augustine’s argument is traditional, with antecedents in Platonic thought; 3) that Augustine elaborates much the same argument elsewhere in his œuvre; 4) that Augustine appeals to revelation in the course of his argument; and 5) that rejecting the privation theory of evil raises big questions. © Equinox Publishing Ltd. 2009 A Reply to My Critic BErNArd G. PrUSAk Villanova University bernard.g.prusak@villanova.edu Jonathan Yates’s response to my analysis of Augustine’s argument is a pleasure to read; I am tickled that my little analysis—composed to make sense for myself of a text that many of us at Villanova regularly teach to undergraduates—has elicited a response of such impressive historical and theological learning.	cache/expositions-131.pdf	txt/expositions-131.txt