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What Shall We Say? Evil, Suffering, and the Crisis of Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

Tsunamis, earthquakes, famines, diseases, wars—these and other devastating forces lead Christians to ask painful questions. Is God all-powerful? Is God good? How can God allow so much innocent human suffering? These questions, taken together, have been called the ‘theodicy problem,’ and in this book Thomas Long explores what preachers can and should say in response. Long reviews the origins and...

to Say to the Puzzle of Suffering, Burrell maintains that a principal function of Job is to deconstruct all of the “sober efforts of philosophers to construct theories” that defend the character of God.8 Despite Tilley’s and Burrell’s attempts to wave us off, however, no Christian asking about innocent suffering can finally stay away from this compelling story. The book of Job is an enormously subtle and complex work, amenable to multiple readings, and there is still at least one more possibility
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