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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



... 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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