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“This book will make no attempt to defend God.… If you are looking for a book that boasts triumphantly of conquest over a great enemy, or gives a detached philosophical analysis that neatly solves an absorbing problem, this isn’t it.” Too often the Christian attitude toward suffering is characterized by a detached academic appeal to God’s sovereignty, as if suffering were a game or a math...

Yet for the saint who confesses the personal God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Mary, such moments of despair can bring the fear of divine indifference, rejection, or judgment. One of the most powerful temptations Christians face as they go through suffering is, to borrow a phrase from John Owen, to have “hard thoughts” about God.5 By “hard thoughts” this Puritan theologian does not have in mind our honest questions that naturally arise amid struggles. We all have honest questions as we stand before
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