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Theodicy

noun
1.
The branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil.





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"Theodicy" Quotes from Famous Books



... abhors himself and repents in dust and ashes nor for Plato's One behind the Many; no perceptible room, in such a world, for any of the absolute values, the transcendent interests, the ethics of idealism, any eschatology, or for Christian theodicy. That which has been the typical contribution of the religious perceptions in the past, namely, the comprehensive vision of life and the world and time sub specie aeternitatis is here abandoned. Eternity is unreal or empty; we never heard the ...
— Preaching and Paganism • Albert Parker Fitch


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