God, Medicine, and Suffering
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ISBN: 0802808964 / Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source, December 1994
Why does a good and all-powerful God allow us to experience pain and suffering? According to Stanley...
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Why does a good and all-powerful God allow us to experience pain and suffering? According to Stanley Hauerwas, asking this question is a theological mistake. Drawing heavily on stories of ill and dying children to illustrate and clarify his discussion of theological-philosophical issues, Hauerwas explores why we so fervently seek explanations for suffering and evil, and he shows how modern medicine has become a god to which we look (in vain) for deliverance from the evils of disease and mortality.
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