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Vindication may refer to: Vindication (horse) (2000–2008), American thoroughbred race horse; Vindication (Crease album) (2000), third album of US hard rock band Crease; Vindication (Susperia album) (2002), second album of Norwegian black metal band Susperia; Vindication, 2008 film written and directed by Bart Mastronardi; Vindication ...
Vindiciae contra tyrannos (meaning: "Defences [of liberty] against tyrants" [1]) was an influential Huguenot tract published in Basel in 1579. Its author remains uncertain, since it was written under the pseudonym of "Stephen Junius Brutus". [1] Likely candidates for its authorship include Hubert Languet and Philippe de Mornay.
Another definition of theodicy is the vindication of divine goodness and providence in view of the existence of evil. The word theodicy derives from the Greek words Θεός, Theos and δίκη, dikē. Theos is translated "God" and dikē can be translated as either "trial" or "judgement". [5] Thus, 'theodicy' literally means "justifying God". [6]
The Greek word δικαιοο, usually translated "justify," may be understood in another sense: "to do justice" "to have justice done" (Thayer's Lexicon) or "to satisfy justice." The 1968 Supplement of Liddell Scott and Jones also includes the definition, "brought to justice"; this sense is the normative definition found in Hellenistic Greek ...
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Rei vindicatio is a legal action by which the plaintiff demands that the defendant return a thing that belongs to the plaintiff. It may be used only when the plaintiff owns the thing, and the defendant has wrongly claimed or assumed possession of the same thing, and is currently impeding the plaintiff's possession of the thing. [1]
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