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Theodicy

Here are entered works that attempt to vindicate the wisdom and goodness of God in the creation and government of the world, and to rebut the charge that these are brought into question by the existence of evil and sin.

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• Theodicy -- Biblical teaching
• Theodicy -- Censorship
• Theodicy -- Comparative studies
• Theodicy -- Early works to 1800
• Theodicy -- Encyclopedias
• Plagues of Egypt

• Evil, Problem of (Theology)
• God -- Permissive will
• God -- Will, Permissive
• Permissive will of God
• Problem of evil (Theology)

• Theodicy: A Class Manual in the Philosophy Of Deity (St. Louis and London: B. Herder Book Co., 1939), by Paul J. Glenn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• If Only I Understood Why, by Pinchas Winston (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Divine Purpose Explained: or, All Things Decreed, Yet Evil Not Caused, Nor Moral Freedom Impaired, and the Glory of God, the End of All (Philadelphia: J. M. Wilson, 1860), by George Morton
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• The Problem of Pain (c1940), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The problem of evil: being an attempt to shew that the existence of sin and pain in the world is not inconsistent with the goodness and power of God (Longmans, Green and co., 1920), by Peter Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mystery. (Mason, 1858), by John Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schillers Theodizee bis zum beginn der Kantischen Studien (Haupt & Hammon, 1909), by Karl Wollf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die philosophischen lehren in Leibnizens Théodicée (Max Niemeyer, 1908), by Adelheid Thönes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der optimismus und pessimismus in der jüdischen religionsphilosophie. Eine studie über die behandlung der Theodicee in derselben bis auf Maimonides (Mayer & Müller, 1890), by Hirsch Goitein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conquering and to conquer (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918), by Frank Weston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dieu l'expérience en métaphysique (Marcel Rivière, 1907), by Xavier Moisant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die theodicee im 18. jahrhundert : entwicklungsstufen des problems vom theoretischen dogma zum praktischen idealismus (W. Engelmann, 1911), by Hans Rudolf David Lindau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide to the knowledge of God, a study of the chief theodicies (Roberts brothers, 1892), by Alphonse Gratry and Abby Langdon Alger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Theodicee (E. Koschny, 1879), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and J. H. von Kirchmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The justification of God : lectures for war-time on a Christian theodicy (Duckworth, 1916), by Peter Taylor Forsyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The God that Jesus saw (Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1921), by W. Garrett Horder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal. (Eichler, 1840), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal. (Amsterdam, 1747), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch einer Geschichte der Meinungen über Schicksal und menschliche Freiheit von den ältesten Zeiten an bis auf die neuesten Denker (S.L. Crusius, 1793), by Johann Günther Karl Werdermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la connaisance de Dieu. (Jules Gervais, 1881), by A. Gratry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théodicée chrétienne, ou Comparaison de la notion chrétienne avec la notion rationaliste de Dieu. (C.J. Fonteyn, 1844), by Henri-Louis-Charles Maret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the divine goodness, relative to the government of moral agents, particularly displayed in future rewards and punishments. (Printed for Thomas & Thomas, by D. and T. Carlisle, 1801), by Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four sermons on the wisdom of God in the permission of sin (Printed by Henry P. Russell, for Cornelius Davis, N. York, 1804), by Joseph Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hardening of Pharaoh's heart : a sermon delivered before the University at Lewisburg on the day of prayer for colleges, February 22d, 1883 (Allen, Lane & Scott's Print. House, 1883), by George Dana Boardman and Bucknell University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritik des Pessimismus : Versuch einer Theodizee (Heynemann'sche Buchdruckerei (F. Beyer), 1888), by Gustav Küssner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theodicy; essays on divine providence. (Longmans, Green, 1912), by Antonio Rosmini (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essais de theodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme, et l'origine de mal. (M.M. Bousquet, 1760), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Louis de Jaucourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théodicée; thèses de métaphysique chrétienne. (C. Fonteyn;, 1885), by A. H. H. Dupont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the divine goodness, relative to the government of moral agents, particularly displayed in future rewards and punishments ... (Printed;, 1794), by Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the divine goodness : relative to the government of moral agents, particularly displayed in future rewards and punishments ... (Printed by G. W. Hill, 1828), by Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cheering views of man and Providence (Carter, Hendee and Co., 1832), by Warren Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A theodicy, or, Vindication of the divine glory, as manifested in the constitution and government of the moral world (Carlton & Phillips, 1853), by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur la théodicée du p. Thomassin, de l'Oratoire (W. Remquet, 1852), by Louis Zozime Élie Lescoeur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deismus, Pantheismus und natürlicher Theismus; kritische Betrachtungen über die Gotteslehre und Theodicee in der neueren Philosophie und Begründung des natürlichen Theismus nebst Entwicklung der dazu gehörigen Theodicee. (Theismus-Verlag, 1909), by Karl Mühlenhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Review of Dr. E. Beecher's conflict of ages. (The author, 1868), by Jacob Blain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A theodicy; or, Vindication of the divine glory, as manifested in the constitution and government of the moral world. (Carlton & Phillips, 1856), by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Problem des Bösen oder die Theodice (C. Osiander, 1840), by Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crook in the lot, or, A display of the sovereignty and wisdom of God in the afflictions of men, and the Christian's deportment under them (Robert Carter, 1848), by Thomas Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evil and God. (J.B. Lippincott, 1856), by John Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Botanik in Beizeihung zur Theodicee (G.J. Manz, 1882), by Franz Lorinser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zoologie in Beziehung zur Theodicee (G.J. Manz, 1879), by Franz Lorinser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The justification of God : lectures for war-time on a Christian theodicy (C. Scribner's sons, 1917), by Peter Taylor Forsyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacob Behmen's theosophick philosophy unfolded, in divers considerations and demonstrations, shewing the verity and utility of the several doctrines or propositions contained in the writings of that divinely instructed author. Also, the principal treatises of the said author abridged. And answers given to the remainder of the 177 theosophik questions, propounded by the said Jacob Behmn, which were left unanswered by him at the time of his death ... with a short account of the life of Jacob Behmen (Printed for Tho. Salusbury, 1691), by Jakob Böhme and Edmund Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teodicea : libri tre (Tipografia e Libreria Boniardi-Pogliani, 1845), by Antonio Rosmini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stolp i utverzhdenīe istiny : opyt pravoslavnoĭ feodit︠s︡ei v dvenadt︠s︡ati pisʹmakh ([s.n.], 1914), by P. A. Florenskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A letter from the Lord Bishop of London to the clergy and people of London and Westminster, on occasion of the late earthquakes. (Printed for John Whiston ..., 1750), by Thomas Sherlock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian nation's appeal to the God of battles for success in the righteous war (s.n.], 1855), by John Carroll (page images at HathiTrust)
• God in history in nature and in war (s.n., 1918), by George Frederick Jeffs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• God's white throne; a rational, evangelical theodicy (Press of Jennings and Graham, 1904), by Byron Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revelation considered as light. A series of discourses (Strahan & co., 1873), by Alexander Ewing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unabhängiges Christentum (Verlag von Alexander Duncker, 1904), by Paul Graue (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De Anselmi cantuariensis proslogio et monologio (Ex officina Haackii, 1832), by Johann Gustav Friedrich Billroth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Theodicee. Mit Oberhirtlicher Approbation. (Theissing, 1878), by Constantin Gutberlet (page images at HathiTrust)
• La théodicée chrétienne d'après les pères de l'église : ou essai philosophique sur le traité de Deo du P. Thomassin (Charles Douniol, 1852), by Louis Zozime Élie Lescoeur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stolp i utverzhdeni e istiny : opyt pravoslavnoi f eodit s ei v dvi e nadt s ati pis makh (Moskva : T-vo tip. A. I. Mamontova, 1914., 1975), by P. A. Florenskii (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ḥeshbono shel ʻolam : le-hagid ki yashar Hashem... (A. Gins, 1878), by Eliezer Zweifel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new theodicy. ([York, S.C., 1948), by John Caswell Roper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Théodicée : thèses de métaphysique chrétienne (Veuve C. Fonteyn, 1874), by Antoine Hubert Henri Dupont (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the benevolence and rectitude of the Supreme Being. (Book committee of the Methodist Protestant church;, 1840), by Asa Shinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die göttliche Weltregierung : ein Vortrag (Moritz Diesterweg, 1878), by Richard Adelbert Lipsius (page images at HathiTrust)
• O konechnykh prichinakh. (Izd. knigoprodavt͡sa I. L. Tuzova, 1894), by Dimitrīĭ Grigorʹevich -1856 Levitskīĭ and F. A. Golubinskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil, by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, trans. by E. M. Huggard, contrib. by Austin Farrer (Gutenberg ebook)
• A salve for the sufferings of the loyall party.: A lecture unto London : and an expostulation with the present Parliament, in a theologicall tract, grounded upon the words of the prophet, Amos 3.6. Shall there bee evill in a city and the Lord hath not done it? Expounded and applyed unto these times: / by J.K.D.T. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1648), by J.K.D.T. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• All things come alike to all: a sermon, on Eccles. IX. 1, 2 and 3 verses. Occasioned by a person's being struck by the lightning of thunder. Preached at Philadelphia, July the 28th, 1745. / By Gilbert Tennent, A.M. Minister of the Gospel in Philadelphia. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts] (Philadelphia: : Printed by William Bradford at the Bible in Second-Street, 1745), by Gilbert Tennent (HTML at Evans TCP)

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