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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...

which attempts to see the whole of history as the outworking of God’s providence.19 Whatever flaws Augustine’s account of evil has, and I think it has many, Augustine nonetheless sees the problem of evil as a practical problem. In this respect he continues to think of suffering from a Pauline perspective—as an opportunity for living in a way more faithful to the new age. Paul articulates this perspective in Romans 5: “Therefore, since we are justifed by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
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