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Theodicy

noun

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

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... to the interesting negative fact that there is nothing in tradition to indicate that Socrates ever occupied himself with theological questions. To be sure, Xenophon has twice put into his mouth a whole theodicy expressing an elaborate teleological view of nature. But that we dare not base anything upon this is now, I think, universally acknowledged. Plato, in the dialogue Euthyphron, makes him subject the popular notion of piety to a devastating criticism; but this, again, will not nowadays ...

— Atheism in Pagan Antiquity • A. B. Drachmann

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Words linked to "Theodicy" : divinity, theology