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Naming the Silences: God, Medicine, and the Problem of Suffering is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why does a good and all-powerful God allow us to experience such pain and suffering? This question, so often asked, has been approached in a variety of ways. In this illuminating and powerful book, Hauerwas explores why we seek explanations for suffering and evil so desperately in today’s world. He draws on true cases of ill and dying children to illustrate and clarify his discussion of the...

CHAPTER II Theology, Theodicy, and Medicine Why Theodicy Is Not a Problem The problem with atheism is that it is not a problem.”1 A strange claim, to be sure, but one I think true. The same is true of the problem of evil—it simply is not always and everywhere “a” problem that makes sense from “anyone’s” point of view. The problem, of course, is in the articles “a” and “the.” Obviously the illnesses and deaths of Carol Wanderhopes are a challenge to all that we hold dear, including our relation to
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