分类：教育/科学-外语学习-英语考试
问题：请问theodicy是什么意思，谢谢Whennaturaldis 
When natural disasters stri elsewhere there is an instant deluge — especially in Britain — of what academics call theodicy, the philosophical problem that the existence of evil in a world created by a good God poses for believers. After the South Asian tsunami last year, atheiWhen natural disasters stri elsewhere there is an instant deluge — especially in Britain — of what academics call theodicy, the philosophical problem that the existence of evil in a world created by a good God poses for believers. After the South Asian tsunami last year, atheists insisted that the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents showed there could be no God. Even believers were forced to acknowledge the challenge for faith of such loss of life. But in America, after the devastation of Katrina, I can’t recall one single media discussion on the subject. 
回答：theodicy [θi'cdisi],其中那个c应该水平翻转180度。我不知道怎么打出那个音标。就是not里的那个元音。
   n. 
 [宗](基督教)自然神学, 神义论, 神正论 


atheist 
 n. 
 无神论者 


deluge 
 n. 
 洪水, 豪雨 ，在这里是比喻great quantity of sth that comes all at once.同时涌来的大量事物。