Did God Author The Devil? | Dorthy Sayers's Author Analogy and Evil
The Mind of The Maker Read-Along | Essay 2 of 2
We’re continuing on with the 2026 Parker’s Ponderings Philosophical Book Club!! Our next book is The Mind of The Maker by Dorthy Sayers. You can grab the book here to support my work: THE MIND OF THE MAKER
And you can check out the brief introduction to Dorthy Sayers in my announcement post here:
Here’s the reading schedule:
April 24th - Companion Essay #1 on chapters 1-6
May 8th - Companion Essay #2 on Chapters 7-Postscript
May 14th - Zoom Book Club discussion @ 5pm central
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Utterly Fascinating Ideas
If God made everything, did He make the Devil? (95)
In the first companion essay, I wanted to take you through the first 6 chapters and pull of the ideas of each because they are integral for establishing Sayers’s analogy for God as author and Trinitarian analogy of Idea, Energy, and Power (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). But in this essay, I want to cover those ideas I think are especially interesting from the latter half of the book as they relate to her analogy. If I don’t cover something you found interesting or confusing, please leave a comment and I’ll respond there.
EVIL
In chapter 7, Sayers covers one the most difficult problem in philosophy and theology: The Problem of Evil. If God is so good, how and why is there any evil at all?
She starts by giving three common answers: