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Article: Theodicy
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- Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
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Theodicy
A theodicy is an argument for the justice of God in the face of evil and suffering in the world. The word
theodicy
is derived from the Greek words
theos
(god) and
dike
(justice). It was first used by the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) in the early eighteenth century. It is common to talk about the theodicy problem, or the problem of evil, as created by the tension, found mainly in monotheistic religions, between the belief that the world is created by a God who is omnipotent, omniscient, and wholly good, and the observation that there exists immense evil and suffering in the world. Critics argue that such a religious belief is either contradictory or ...
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