Although Walther Eichrodt is not alone in finding the philosophical concept of theodicy as “foreign” to the Old Testament, stating, “theodicy was no fruit which had grown upon the tree of biblical faith in God, but was largely derived from Stoic-Neoplatonic world view,” we must reckon with this term made famous by Leibniz.48 Discussions on the religio-philosophical dilemma of God’s role in evil, suffering, and death generally focus on distinctions of moral evil, natural evil, and religious evil.49
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