📚 Theodicy

Books with theodicy on their catalogue record, first published between 1710 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject theodicy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,235 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Evil and the God of love	John Harwood Hick	1966	13
	Kritische Theorie	Max Horkheimer	1968	13
	The New Hacker's Dictionary	Eric S. Raymond	1991	13
	God's Problem	Bart D. Ehrman	2008	11
	Disappointment with God	Philip Yancey	1988	10
	Religion and Its Monsters	Timothy Beal	2014	9
	God and Goodness	Mark Wynn	1999	8
	A theodicy	Albert Taylor Bledsoe	1853	7
	Theodicy	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	1951	7
	The puzzle of evil	Peter Vardy	1992	7
	When God Weeps	Joni Eareckson Tada	1997	7
	Essais de theodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme, et l'origine du mal	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	1710	6
	God's white throne	Byron Palmer	1904	6
	Spirit-controlled temperament	Tim F. LaHaye	1966	6
	Hope for the troubled heart	Billy Graham	1991	6
	When God Doesn't Make Sense	James C. Dobson	1993	6
	The justification of God	Peter Taylor Forsyth	1916	5
	People of the lie	M. Scott Peck	1983	5
	Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering	Timothy J. Keller	2013	5
	How to Tell God from the Devil	A. Roy Eckardt	2017	5
	Le plan de Dieu envers les hommes	Ferdinand Oliver Petitpierre	1786	4
	Stolp i utverzhdenie istiny	Pavel Florensky	1914	4
	Teodycea	Wincenty Granat	1960	4
	Evil and the God of love	John Harwood Hick	1966	4
	Lord, Where Are You When Bad Things Happen?	Kay Arthur	1992	4
	The doors of the sea	David Bentley Hart	2005	4
	The agency of God in snow, frost, &c	Stephen Hawley	1771	3
	The beauties of philanthropy, or, The moral likeness of God delineated, in miniature	Thomas Branagan	1808	3
	On the benevolence and rectitude of the Supreme Being	Asa Shinn	1840	3
	Christian views of human suffering	William Ellery Channing	1840	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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