Crossword-Solution: THEODICY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Theodicy | n. | A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil. |
| Theodicy | n. | That department of philosophy which treats of the being, perfections, and government of God, and the immortality of the soul. |
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| Explanation for the existence of evil in God's presence | 1 answer |
| Religious belief | 11 answers |
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Sentences with THEODICY (5)
Lastly, 104:12 they say they have always believed it." Perfection of divine government Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy which indicates the rightness of 104:15 all divine action, as the emanation of divine Mind, and the consequent wrongness of the opposite so-called action, - evil, occultism, 104:18 necromancy, mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism.
Read it, gentlemen--especially you who are to be priests--not merely for its details of the fall of Rome, but as the noblest theodicy which has yet proceeded from a human pen.
Why do you say often that you wish you were dead? Don't you believe then in your own work? Do let yourself be influenced then by this or that temporary thing? It is possible, we are not gods, and something in us, something weak and unimportant sometimes, disturbs our theodicy.
Were history not always a disguised Christian theodicy, were it written with more justice and fervent feeling, it would be the very last thing on earth to be made to serve the purpose it now serves, namely, that of an opiate against everything subversive and novel.
Can one get a theology and a theodicy out of this? Probably, but just now I do not see it distinctly.
Quotes with THEODICY (2)
If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all.
Long before there were effective treatments, physicians dispensed prognoses, hope, and, above all, meaning. When something terrible happens-and serious disease is always terrible-people want to know why. In a pantheistic world, the explanation was simple-one god had caused the problem, another could cure it. In the time since people have been trying to get along with only one God, explaining disease and evil has become more difficult. Generations of theologians have wrestled …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1973–2020).