Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vindication of God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An exposition of the theory of divine Providence with a view to the vindication of the attributes, particularly of the holiness and justice, of God, in establishing the present order of things, in which evil, moral as well as physical, largely exists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.
- noun That department of philosophy which treats of the being, perfections, and government of God, and the immortality of the soul.
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- noun A justification of a deity, or the attributes of a deity, especially in regard to the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of God.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil
Etymologies
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Examples
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I've always felt that one of his most important inquiries, into theodicy is revealing about the issues here, if one expands the term theodicy beyond the religious, and considers whether any contingent event such as the puritans' otherwise unexplainable good fortune can prompt a challenge of meaning.
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Point 7, a passing reference to theodicy, is not specific to ID.
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This question of suffering -- which theologians refer to as "theodicy" -- has, since the emergence of human consciousness, prompted many different theories and possible answers.
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The best work on Darwin's theodicy is Cornelius G. Hunter's "Darwin's God".
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There is, in fact, a theological field of inquiry called "theodicy", which investigates the basic question: If God is all powerful (omnipotent), all knowing (omniscient), and all-good, (omnibenevolent) how can evil and injustice exist?
Rabbi Alan Lurie: How Could God Have Allowed the Holocaust? Rabbi Alan Lurie 2012
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The song grapples with a classic, enduring theological knot sometimes referred to as theodicy: If God is benevolent and all-powerful, why does evil exist?
Michael Gilmour: Ozzy Osbourne And The Apocalypse Michael Gilmour 2011
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The song grapples with a classic, enduring theological knot sometimes referred to as theodicy: If God is benevolent and all-powerful, why does evil exist?
Michael Gilmour: Ozzy Osbourne And The Apocalypse Michael Gilmour 2011
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There is, in fact, a theological field of inquiry called "theodicy", which investigates the basic question: If God is all powerful (omnipotent), all knowing (omniscient), and all-good, (omnibenevolent) how can evil and injustice exist?
Rabbi Alan Lurie: How Could God Have Allowed the Holocaust? Rabbi Alan Lurie 2012
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My points were simply pointing out the huge problem of evil/suffering, which there is a whole field called theodicy that tries to hand-wave away.
Honoring religion and science | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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The problem relating to the question about divinity being unambiguously good is traditionally called the theodicy problem, and it raises the question about the relationship between the general religious assumption that the world has been created by a transcendent power and the specific religions.
The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? By Jakob Wolf William Harryman 2009
yarb commented on the word theodicy
A long poem by Homer.
October 23, 2007