ABSTRACT
It is the terror of death, more than any other evil, that poses the ques tion: Is God the Enemy? Of course, many other evils beset us within the human world: ethnic idolatries, nationalist destructiveness economic exploitation and oppression, misogyny, racism-the list goes on. We could blame only human beings (ourselves) for these corporate evils, and not God. But would not that be too easy, too simple? Geddes MacGregor points out that war, for example, “though human greed and other vices play a part in it, does not seem to be wholly explicable in human terms. War is indeed more like a virus attacking humanity.”2 The same is the case with many other systemic evils of human life. They are ridden with the demonic, fed by the diabolical. And at the ultimate level of reckoning, the God who stands out there beyond all the proximate freedom/destructiveness of the Devil and all the proximate freedom/ destructiveness of humankind also stands in here as immanent Culprit.
