Word of the day: theodicy

The word of the day is theodicy:

< French théodicée, the title of a work of Leibniz (1710), < Greek θεό-ς God + δίκη justice.(Show Less)

The, or a, vindication of the divine attributes, esp. justice and holiness, in respect to the existence of evil; a writing, doctrine, or theory intended to ‘justify the ways of God to men’.  (OED)

"My last god's a theodicy glutton, a good-evil gourmet-
peacock and plague, gene-junk; he gobbles it down.
Poetry, violence; love, war - his stew of honey and thorn."

 - C. K. Williams, "Rat Wheel, Dementia, Mont Saint Michel", 4 April 2011 The New Yorker