Some moral critique of theodicy is misplaced, butnot all

Several recent critiques of theodicy have incorporated some form ofmoral objection to the theodical enterprise, in which the critic argues that one oughtnot to engage in the practice of theodicy. In defending theodical practice against themoral critique, Atle O. Sّvik argues that the moral critique (1) begs the questionagainst theodicy, and (2) misapprehends the implications of the claim that it isinappropriate to espouse a theodicy in certain situations. In this paper I suggestsome sympathetic emendations for Sّvik’s theodical apologetic, but I argue againstSّvik’s claim that the moral critique of theodicy is altogether irrelevant