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theodicy
noun
(
theodicies
)
A justification of a deity, or the attributes of a deity, especially in regard to the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of God.
2003
: God was now nothing more than a distant cause of causes; what mattered was matter, and man acting in nature. The , the master-narrative, had become secularized. " Roy Porter,
Flesh in the Age of Reason
(Penguin 2004, p. 388)
Etymology:
After French
théodicée
, from Greek '
"god" +
' "justice".
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