This essay presents a typological inventory as a way to appraise the critiques and transformations the concept of theodicy has undergone in recent theological literature. The criterion selected to this end is the classical trilemma inherited from 17^th century metaphysics, namely how to conciliate the omnipotence and perfect goodness of God with the reality of evil, given that picking up any two of the three propositions entails the logical exclusion of the third. The three main types, exemplified by Hans Jonas, John K. Roth and John Milbank, accept the terms of the trilemma, and respectively give up divine omnipotence, the perfect goodness of God, or the reality of evil. Three additional types, illustrated by Richard Swinburne, Paul Ricœur and Odo Marquard, reject the terms of the trilemma, and respectively refuse the constraints of a non-instrumental understanding of evil, a systematic and totalizing intelligibility of God’s purposes, or a theistic notion of God’s providential action within the course of history.