the branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil

and so, to use the words with which milton would begin paradise lost, 「 a theodicy is an attempt 」to justify the ways of god to men.「

因此，用弥尔顿在《失乐园》开头的话说，斯奥迪斯就是试图「证明上帝待人之法

rousseau「s theodicy of self-love: evil, rationality, and the drive for recognition.

卢梭的自爱神正论：邪恶，理性，和为识别的干劲。

frederick douglass called it “a sacred effort, 」 and lincoln himself thought that his second inaugural, which offered a theodicy of the civil war, was better than the gettysburg address.

弗雷德利克．道格拉斯称它为“神圣的努力」。林肯自己认为他的第二次就职演讲为内战提供了道义论根据，因而比葛底斯堡演说更为优秀。

given economists」 almost theological commitment to the notion that markets clear, the presence of unemployment in the world requires a theodicy to explain it.

从神学角度讲，假如经济学家认定市场会自动出清，那全球失业现状则需神学理论来解释。

rousseau「s theodicy of self-love: evil, rationality, and the drive for recognition.

卢梭自爱的自然神学：邪恶性，合理性，并识别车道。

however, it is my belief that theodicy ought to go still one st ep further to start its discussion from the problem of suffering, and this suffering-based doctrine may be called「neo-theodicy」.

神义论更应当从苦难问题出发讨论，这种基于苦难的神义论可以称之为「新神义论」。

a theodicy can be seen as heretical or even blasphemous for the simple reason that it -- think of what it assumes.

斯奥迪斯会被看作是异端思想甚至是亵渎上帝,原因很简单--想想斯奥迪斯假定了什么。

they asserted to transform the traditional theodicy in the postmodernism sight and to combine it with modern reflection.

他们坚持后现代视野，对传统神正论进行当代转换，并使之与现代性反思结合起来。

theodicy is the term coined by the eighteenth-century philosopher leibniz, and he applied this term theodicy to just that kind of philosophical sentiment that」s implied by its etymology.

斯奥迪斯是由18世纪哲学家莱布尼兹创造的，他用斯奥迪斯这个词指代,它的语源表达的哲学思想。

a theodicy of course is a response to the problem of evil.

神义论自然是对罪恶问题的回应。

a theodicy assumes that god「s justice can be witnessed, that it can be accounted for here on earth.

斯奥迪斯假定上帝的正义性可以被见证，可为地上的人所证明。

milton has to justify or at least understand this seemingly incomprehensible and unjustifiable event. it」s this drive to theodicy that accounts for the poem「s most painful moments.

弥尔顿要解释，至少要理解，这看起来不可理喻， 无法解释的事件，这首诗最悲痛之处正是源于这斯奥迪斯的动力。

hans jonas」 philosophy of responsibility is a constructive result which realized a creative transformation by combining traditional theodicy with modern reflection.

汉斯·约纳斯的责任哲学就是把传统神正论和现代性反思结合起来进行创造性转换的积极成果。