Radical evil and the scarcity of hope: postsecular meditations

In: Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Abstract

No one will deny that we live in a world where evil exists. But how are we to come to grips with human atrocity and its diabolical intensity? Martin Beck Matu?tík considers evil to be even more radically evil than previously thought and to have become all too familiar in everyday life. While we can name various moral wrongs and specific cruelties, Matu?tík maintains that radical evil understood as a religious phenomenon requires a religious response where the language of hope, forgiveness, redemption, a