“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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to Theodicy 101, which is the attempt, mounted by the friends of God, to vindicate him from the charge that he is somehow complicit in the evils that mark the world he made. Evils ...

2012 was a rather poor year for theodicy in our public life. Theodicy is the attempt to reconcile the omni-benevolent God with evil and suffering in the world and is a rather crucial part of how ...

There's even a word for reconciling this paradox: theodicy, or attempting to justify God's goodness despite the existence of evil and suffering. A World Both Beautiful And Shattered Steven Folberg ...

Second, and connected to the first point, it is interesting how medicine became, for some, a therapeutic theodicy, a way of explaining the presence of perceived evil and suffering. If the problem ...