1. VOA: standard.2010.01.15 A theodicy assumes that God's justice can be witnessed, that it can be Accounted for here on earth.

2. Frederick Douglass called it "a sacred effort, " and Lincoln himself thought that his Second Inaugural, which offered a theodicy of the Civil War, was better than the Gettysburg Address.

3. The Philemon-Baucis belongs to the tradition of flood stories whose prime Greek example is the tale of Deucalion and Pyrrha.o0 The major religious aspects of the Philemon-Baucis - theodicy, flood story, tree cult - owe nothing to Callimachus' Hecale