| Ward tackles their claims directly dealing honestly with themes such as theodicy and the possibility that human will could thwart divine purpose. |
| Uninterested in apologetics and theodicy, Carroll is nonetheless obsessed with the God she finds in the natural world. |
| For Voltaire, a catastrophe of such indiscriminate vastness was incontrovertible evidence against the bland optimism of popular theodicy. |
| Defoe's story is an anguished inquiry into questions of predestination and election, freedom and theodicy. |
| This is why the Torah and the Talmud, though they speak to us incessantly of God, contain no coherent and systematic expose of theodicy. |
| Thirdly, this final theodicy provides no account of moral evil. |
