theodicy

/thee-od-uh-see/US // θiˈɒd ə si //UK // (θɪˈɒdɪsɪ) //

神论,神学原理,神学理论,神道

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural the·od·i·cies.
- : a vindication of the divine attributes, particularly holiness and justice, in establishing or allowing the existence of physical and moral evil.

What Darwin did not realize, as he formulated his theodicy, is that sex tips the calculations strongly in our favor.
This is the religious exercise known as theodicy: explaining why God allows bad things to happen to good people.
Leibnitz, in his Monadology, and more especially his Theodicy, witnessed to his belief in this doctrine.
No theology, no theodicy, has ever attributed to God this title.
Then in the second place, the Theodicy itself is peculiarly rich in historical material.
And if we are to consider Leibniz historically, we cannot do better than take up his Theodicy, for two reasons.
Its whole theodicy is a work not of genius but of imagination, a patching up of neo-Platonic ideas.