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单词 theodicy
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Definition of theodicy in English:

theodicy

nounPlural theodicies θɪˈɒdɪsiθiˈɑdəsi
mass noun
  • The vindication of divine providence in view of the existence of evil.

    the question of theodicy
    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

  • theodicean

  • 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'.

Rhymes

odyssey
 
 

Definition of theodicy in US English:

theodicy

nounTHēˈädəsēθiˈɑdəsi
  • The vindication of divine goodness and providence in view of the existence of evil.

    the question of theodicy
    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’.

 
 
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