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.
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