Tag: Theodicy

• September 19, 2013

  Complaining or coalescing

  Complaining requires believing that the complainer has been singled out for ill-usage. What hubris! What error in perception! For how is it possible for one to be singled out at all, let alone for ill-usage, if the world is good and beautiful? Complaining implies that the world runs contrary to one’s desires. In this respect, complaining…
• April 27, 2012

  Love as plenitude: A prelude

  Theodicy (Leibniz’s coinage) is a justification of the ways of God to man. To “justify the ways of God to man” was Milton’s project in Paradise Lost. This justification can seem urgent, and especially fraught, when one cannot deny the existence of evil but at the same time believes wholeheartedly in the existence of a benevolent,…