different between sociodicy vs theodicy

English

Etymology

By analogy with theodicy. See socio-.

Noun

sociodicy (plural sociodicies)

1. A justification (or similar discourse) of the nature of a particular society

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• theodicity

Etymology

Borrowed from French théodicée, from Ancient Greek ???? (theós, “god”) + ???? (dík?, “justice”), coined by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal (Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil), commonly known as Théodicée.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: th???d?si, IPA^(key): /?i???d.?.si/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i??d.?.si/

Noun

theodicy (plural theodicies)

1. (theology, philosophy) A justification of a deity or of particular attributes of a deity; specifically, a justification of the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of God.
   • 2000 [Kluwer Academic], Charles Seymour, A Theodicy of Hell, 2010, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 195,

     In general, my theodicy of hell is more congenial to those denominations with less rigidly defined doctrinal systems.

     Does this mean I have allowed theodicy to encroach on theology, contrary to my avowed purpose?

   • 2002, Kevin J. Christiano, William H. Swatos, Peter Kivisto, Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments, Rowman & Littlefield (Altamira Press), page 129,

     Distilling the characteristic features of the theodicies of the world religions, Weber identified five varieties or forms that the answers to this problem take, which in his view speaks to the varieties of forms that religion itself takes: a messiah who initiates the end of the world as we know it, the transmigration of souls, a universal day of judgment, predestination, or dual divinities of good and evil.

Related terms

• anthropodicy
• sociodicy

Translations

See also

• apologism
• dystheism
• eutheism

Further reading

• theodicy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Problem of evil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Problem of Hell on Wikipedia.Wikipedia