theodicity

plural theodicities

1. alternativeAlternative form of theodicy.

   This theodicity analogy also explains why politicians have drawn from these metaphoric models to formulate policy to control populations.

   2012, Wadada Nabudere, Afrikology and Transdisciplinarity: A Restorative Epistemology, →ISBN, page 95

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   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.

   2002, John Berdell, International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies, →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.

   2003, Daniel Dubuisson, The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology, →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.

   2015, Erich Goode, Deviant Behavior, →ISBN