Imagine a Christian has experienced a devastating loss, perhaps the death of someone dearly loved. Not everyone knows the traditional word theodicy, but most Christians have been acquainted with its ...

Theodicy attempts to reconcile the existence ... A bit later, Ivan takes up the scatological theme once more in response to “greater-good” theodicies — that is, attempts to justify innocent ...

“Theodicy,” an early poem in Nick Laird’s fifth collection, “Up Late,” introduces God — or a version of God — who shadows the book’s evolution. Theodicy, a religious philosophy ...

In his biblical exegesis of Job, he focuses on the conversation between the protagonist and his interlocutors and asserts that each friend represents a flawed ideological perspective with respect to ...

'My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions," James Joyce wrote in a letter to his brother at the beleaguered age of 25. Would it be a stretch to suggest that a youthful ...

You confused me with your dismissal of the theodicy argument. Here are my two biggest objections to what you had to say: First, I have never looked at the theodicy argument as an argument ...

Theodicy, which is the justification of God’s good government of the world in the face of evil and pain, was suddenly harder to practice. But the preachers kept at it. “There is no divine ...

There you go. I kicked breast cancer to the curb in October of 2015. But the theodicy lessons I learned from it have stuck with me. “Theodicy” is our belief about God and how God interacts ...

A note on theodicy from one of Andrew Sullivan's readers (emphasis added): I find Richard Mourdock's views on abortion repugnant, but I find myself in the oddly sympathetic to him [sic] as ...