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noun - the branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil
noun - a defense of God's goodness in respect to the existence of evil
THEODICIES - Theodicy (), in its most common form, is an attempt to answer the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil, thus resolving the is...
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Theodicy (), in its most common form, is an attempt to answer the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil, thus resolving the issue of the problem of evil. Some theodicies also address the evidential problem of evil by attempting "to make the existence of an all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good or omnibenevolent God consistent with the existence of evil or suffering in the world." Unlike a defense, which tries to demonstrate that God's existence is logically possible in the light of evil, a theodicy attempts to provide a framework wherein God's existence is also plausible. The German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz coined the term "theodicy" in 1710 in his work Théodicée, though various responses to the problem of evil had been previously proposed. The British philosopher John Hick traced the history of moral theodicy in his 1966 work, Evil and the God of Love, identifying three major traditions:* the Plotinian theodicy, named after Plotinus * the |