Theodicy
The reasoned defense of God's goodness and justice amid the existence of evil and suffering.
22 documents · 6 libraries · 1999–2026
Emphasis over time
Peak: 3 documents in 2021
Documents tagged with this topic each year. Libraries cover different years (Liahona starts in 2021), so the rate compares eras more fairly than the count.
Where it lives
- Interpreter10 documents
- BYU Studies6 documents
- Religious Educator2 documents
- Scripture Central2 documents
- BYU Speeches1 document
- Liahona Articles1 document
Latest
Scripture Central
Why Does the Book of Job Apply to Everyone? (opens in a new tab)
Aug 2026
Interpreter
An Unsystematic Dive into Gospel Questions (opens in a new tab)
Brent Schmidt · 2026
Interpreter
Latter-day Saint Theology and the Problem of Evil (opens in a new tab)
Val Larsen, Newell D. Wright · 2025
Scripture Central
Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen? (opens in a new tab)
Dec 2024
Liahona Articles
I Found Him There (opens in a new tab)
Rachel Guy · Dec 2022
BYU Studies
Is God Subject to or the Creator of Eternal Law? (opens in a new tab)
James M. McLachlan · 2021
Interpreter
Job: An LDS Reading (opens in a new tab)
Mack C. Stirling · 2021
BYU Studies
Empathy and the Atonement (opens in a new tab)
Tyler Johnson · 2016
Religious Educator
Every Experience Can Become a Redemptive Experience (opens in a new tab)
Allan D. Rau · 2011
BYU Studies
The Fate of the Davao Penal Colony #502 “Branch” of the LDS Church, 1944 (opens in a new tab)
David L. Clark and Bart J. Kowallis · 2011
Earliest
BYU Speeches
Joseph Smith and the Problem of Evil (opens in a new tab)
David L. Paulsen · Sep 1999
Most frequent voices
- David L. Paulsen2 documents
- Mack C. Stirling2 documents
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