theodicity

English

Noun

theodicity (plural theodicities)

1. Alternative form of theodicy
   • 2002, John Berdell, International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies, →ISBN:

     It is probably because I have almost entirely ignored Malthus's theodicity — the theological aspects and implications of his political economy — that I find his case so much harder to express.

   • 2003, Daniel Dubuisson, The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology, →ISBN:

     Implicitly, this theodicity of progress, coming as reward to the hardworking, entrepreneurial West, presupposed a harmonious vision of the world, again in the fashion of traditional cosmogonies, always organized and hierarchized.

   • 2012, Wadada Nabudere, Afrikology and Transdisciplinarity: A Restorative Epistemology, →ISBN, page 95:

     This theodicity analogy also explains why politicians have drawn from these metaphoric models to formulate policy to control populations.

   • 2015, Erich Goode, Deviant Behavior, →ISBN:

     In short, according to Max Weber, there is a nearly universal tendency for religions of the upper strata to develop a theodicity that legitimates the good fortune of the rich and privileged and the ill fortune of the poor, arguing that rich and poor alike merit their status in life.