Saturday, January 08, 2005

Tsunami, God and evil

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1903

[VirtueOnline] January 7, 2005--In these first dramatic days of the New Year, theodicy seems to be the favorite topic in salons and around kitchen tables. Theodicy is a term coined by German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz (1646-1716) for assorted attempts to "justify" belief in a good, omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of all the evil around us - natural calamities as well as the demonic acts of man.

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