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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...