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Examples of theodicy
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Andrew Sullivan has posted several more blog entries on the subject of theodicy.
From the scienceblogs.com
The major theodicies include the Augustinian theodicy and the Irenaean theodicy.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Absence is the key image for her metaphysics, cosmology, cosmogeny, and theodicy.
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This juxtaposition leads her to produce an unusual form of Christian theodicy.
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This theodicy of Cousin laid him open obviously enough to the charge of pantheism.
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The attempt to mix both is indiscreet and gives rise to the conundrums of theodicy.
From the latimes.com
I suspect that Ryan Avent commits a version of the Dorning Rasbotham theodicy here.
From the economist.com
This concept is reminiscent of the Free will theodicy of the problem of Evil.
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To my mind, theodicy is the only argument anyone can ever need against these religions.
From the scienceblogs.com
- The branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil
- Theodicy (/u03B8iu02D0u02C8u0252du026Asi/), in its most common form, attempts to answer the question why a good God permits the manifestation of evil. Theodicy addresses the evidential problem of evil by attempting u201Cto make the existence of an All-knowing, All-powerful and All-good or omnibenevolent God consistent with the existence of evilu201D or suffering in the world...
- In the philosophy of religion and theology, the problem of evil is the question of how to explain the world's moral and natural evils (acts, events or states that bring about or constitute suffering, loss, privation and injustice) if there exists a deity that is omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and ...
- The "Book of the Heavenly Cow", or "The Book of the Cow of Heaven", is an Ancient Egyptian text thought to have originated during the Amarna Period and, in part, describes the reasons for the imperfect state of the world in terms of humankind's rebellion against the supreme sun god Ra. ...
- 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
- (Theodicies) Literally, "the righteousness of God". Any explanation of how evil and suffering can exist in the world if God is both all-powerful and loving.
- The study of the problem of evil in the world. The issue is raised in light of the sovereignty of God. How could a holy and loving God who is in control of all things allow evil to exist? The answer has been debated for as long as the church has existed. ...
- 1952, A. Farrer, Ed. and E. Huggard, Trans., New Haven: Yale UP.
- Edited by Farrer, translated by Huggard. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
