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Definition of theodicy in English: theodicynounPlural theodicies θɪˈɒdɪsiθiˈɑdəsi mass nounThe vindication of divine providence in view of the existence of evil. count noun those seeking a theodicy Example sentencesExamples - Both move questions of theodicy away from attempts at explanation and defense and toward compassionate response and solidarity with those who suffer.
- Defoe's story is an anguished inquiry into questions of predestination and election, freedom and theodicy.
- Ward tackles their claims directly dealing honestly with themes such as theodicy and the possibility that human will could thwart divine purpose.
- I have argued that constructing theodicies to answer questions about ‘God and evil’ perpetuates old evils and creates new evils.
- By examining the impact of religious theodicy on life satisfaction, this paper addresses one of the more understudied issues in religion and health research.
- She got a PhD from Brandeis, where she studied nineteenth-century American poetry and theodicy.
- Thirdly, this final theodicy provides no account of moral evil.
- This is an historical and psychological process that involves conflict and suffering and which is the proper subject of philosophy and theodicy.
- Uninterested in apologetics and theodicy, Carroll is nonetheless obsessed with the God she finds in the natural world.
- I realize that we brush up against the problem of evil and theodicy here.
- For Voltaire, a catastrophe of such indiscriminate vastness was incontrovertible evidence against the bland optimism of popular theodicy.
- Speaking as a theologian, Karen Kilby is wary of philosophers building theodicies, or solutions to the problem of evil that are necessarily abstract.
- Part of the problem with any theodicy is the notion that God is powerful in the sense that we ordinarily give that word.
- I met this theodicy once when interviewing some devout Christian women for a radio program I was producing.
- We're halfway through our meditations on theodicy: Why do human beings suffer and die in a world created by a just and loving God?
- Throughout the book, Haught systematically develops a theology of evolution that engages contemporary debates on theodicy, suffering, and death.
- For more than two millennia after the writing of the Torah, discussions of evil focussed on the question of theodicy: how can bad events be reconciled with the omnipotence of a good God?
- There are also those who feel that the God of theism has utterly failed the challenge of theodicy: how we can believe in a good and omnipotent God, given the state of the world?
- For example, I share his concern about the implications of the idea of God's omnipotence for theodicy, and also his unease with a radical separation of God and nature.
- At the same time, there lies at the base of Christian theodicy the belief that God had given Adam and Eve freedom to sin in the Garden of Eden - and sin they not only could, but did.
Derivatives adjectiveθɪɒdɪˈsiːən Let us consider the theodicean significance in terms of antiblack racism and an antiblack world. Example sentencesExamples - It seems as if you're making some sort of bizarre theodicean argument, taking the common free will defense, and wrapping them all up into one bizarre little package.
- In part one, I seek to read Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History against the prevalent theodicean interpretation of much of his religio-historical work.
- Each of the theodicean problems that Descartes examines is developed in detail.
- Based on this, Davies examines and rejects a number of theistic theodicean arguments (including that which claims evil is the necessary result of God's allowing man free will).
Origin Late 18th century: from French Théodicée, the title of a work by Leibniz, from Greek theos 'god' + dikē 'justice'. Definition of theodicy in US English: theodicynounTHēˈädəsēθiˈɑdəsi The vindication of divine goodness and providence in view of the existence of evil. count noun those seeking a theodicy Example sentencesExamples - This is an historical and psychological process that involves conflict and suffering and which is the proper subject of philosophy and theodicy.
- We're halfway through our meditations on theodicy: Why do human beings suffer and die in a world created by a just and loving God?
- Ward tackles their claims directly dealing honestly with themes such as theodicy and the possibility that human will could thwart divine purpose.
- For more than two millennia after the writing of the Torah, discussions of evil focussed on the question of theodicy: how can bad events be reconciled with the omnipotence of a good God?
- Uninterested in apologetics and theodicy, Carroll is nonetheless obsessed with the God she finds in the natural world.
- Both move questions of theodicy away from attempts at explanation and defense and toward compassionate response and solidarity with those who suffer.
- By examining the impact of religious theodicy on life satisfaction, this paper addresses one of the more understudied issues in religion and health research.
- For example, I share his concern about the implications of the idea of God's omnipotence for theodicy, and also his unease with a radical separation of God and nature.
- Thirdly, this final theodicy provides no account of moral evil.
- I met this theodicy once when interviewing some devout Christian women for a radio program I was producing.
- I realize that we brush up against the problem of evil and theodicy here.
- Throughout the book, Haught systematically develops a theology of evolution that engages contemporary debates on theodicy, suffering, and death.
- There are also those who feel that the God of theism has utterly failed the challenge of theodicy: how we can believe in a good and omnipotent God, given the state of the world?
- She got a PhD from Brandeis, where she studied nineteenth-century American poetry and theodicy.
- Defoe's story is an anguished inquiry into questions of predestination and election, freedom and theodicy.
- Part of the problem with any theodicy is the notion that God is powerful in the sense that we ordinarily give that word.
- For Voltaire, a catastrophe of such indiscriminate vastness was incontrovertible evidence against the bland optimism of popular theodicy.
- I have argued that constructing theodicies to answer questions about ‘God and evil’ perpetuates old evils and creates new evils.
- Speaking as a theologian, Karen Kilby is wary of philosophers building theodicies, or solutions to the problem of evil that are necessarily abstract.
- At the same time, there lies at the base of Christian theodicy the belief that God had given Adam and Eve freedom to sin in the Garden of Eden - and sin they not only could, but did.
Origin Late 18th century: from French Théodicée, the title of a work by Leibniz, from Greek theos ‘god’ + dikē ‘justice’. |