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Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Theodicy is the defense of God's goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil. Gottfried Leibniz coined the term in 1710 in his work Theodicee, and it delves into answering why an omnipotentent and omnibenevolent God could coexist with the evil and suffering in the world.

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