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God & Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross

3 reviews
Douglas John Hall

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1987

God and Human Suffering
Of all the treatments of this difficult subject of God's presence in suffering, Douglas John Hall's is the most helpful that I've read. This is a serious theological treatment of a complicated and emotional issue. Hall brings biblical theological clarity to readers while also addressing other popular treatments to the subject. Unless we understand the theology of the cross and God's ...

Suffering

18 reviews
Dorothee Soelle

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1975

Finding and making meaning
I have used Dorothee Soelle's text, 'Thinking About God', as a text in the introduction to theology class at my seminary; in this volume, 'Suffering', Soelle explores in more depth and detail a concept that is central to the biblical witness, but which is often misunderstood and overlooked in our modern society. Written against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, a time of great suffering that was ...

How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil? (Tough Questions)
Garry Poole

Zondervan, 2003

This revised edition of the Tough Questions series of small group curriculum faces head-on the difficult and challenging questions seekers ask about the Christian faith.

Suffering and the Sovereignty of God

10 reviews

Crossway Books, 2006

Humbling Essays
This book has some great essays. It provides a great mix of theology, and personal testimony, and narratives of how God uses suffering to progress the gospel. The question of suffering is very complex so having a variety of writers from diverse backgrounds attacking the issue from slightly different perspectives helps the reader to understand how God uses suffering to glorify Himself, to mature ...

Suffering and the Goodness of God (Theology in Community)
Christopher W. Morgan, Robert A. Peterson

Crossway Books, 2008

Suffering and the Goodness of God presents biblical truths concerning suffering and challenges believers to promote justice and to emulate God’s grace as they minister to others. Famine. Sickness. Terrorist Attacks. Natural disasters. Each day horrific scenes of suffering are streamed before us through television, the Internet, and newspapers. Believers are taught that God is good, and they believe this truth. Yet when they are faced ...

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

51 reviews
Drew Gilpin Faust

Knopf, 2008

Death and the Civil War
A beautifully written and conceived book. The author approaches the United States and civil war from the perspective of death; a perspective I have never seen addressed. Fascinating in her descriptions of a "good death" and in the stress, grieving and emotional toil knowing or not knowing, finding or not finding a deceased beloved, burying or not burying, had on the families and loved ones of ...

Suffering: A Test of Theological Method

3 reviews
Arthur C. McGill

Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2007

Divine Power Made Perfect in Weakness!
As someone working on a theology of the cross where the "power of God is perfected in weakness," I look for others writing on the same topic. This small, extremely readable book put so much together in such a small package that it is hard to rate the book highly enough. There really is nothing absolutely new here, but McGill has prayed through things to the center, and as a result, his writing ...

On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent

4 reviews
Gustavo Gutierrez

Orbis Books, 1987

"A Preferential Option for the Poor"
I am reading G. Gutierrez's book "ON JOB:God-talk and the suffering of the innocent" for the second time this summer (2000). I find it as refreshing and guiding as the first time that I read it several years ago. Not being a theologian, nor a biblical scholar, it helped me understand the Old Testament book of JOB, which I think is challenging to understand. There are two main reasons I liked ...

Making Sense Out of Suffering

20 reviews
Peter Kreeft

Servant Ministries, 1986

Making Life's Dreariest Aspect Meaningful
(4.5 *'s) Followers of Peter Kreeft's books have known for a long time now how deftly he is able to take difficult, yet lofty subject matter and make it accessible to the reader's heart and mind. In his excellent 1986 book, `Making Sense of Suffering' he again takes the most poignant and mysterious of human topics and brings some clarity and comfort to those willing to take the 184 page sojourn. ...

Watchman Nee: Man of Suffering (Heroes of the Faith)

6 reviews
Bob Laurent

Barbour Publishing, Incorporated, 1998

A truly Inspiring book that blessed me! and will bless you 2
I originally read this book because I didn't know much about Watchman Nee and only knew that he wrote a lot of hymns. However, when I started reading about his life, my respect and awe of him grew so much. His lifestyle is so real and so encouraging. This book was an easy read and I read it in one sitting because it is impossible to put down. While I read this book, I was reminded of Hebrews ...

God, Medicine, and Suffering

3 reviews
Stanley Hauerwas

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994

A thorough analysis of a complex subject
This is a really well thought out book. Hauerwas explores suffering in its most outrageous form : child suffering. For most of life human beings can explain away suffering as a product of this or that. Child suffering is different as it provokes a different reaction in us. Instead of wanting to accept it as a course of life we become shocked and disgusted with such suffering. Maybe it has to ...

A Path Through Suffering: Discovering the Relationship Between God's Mercy and Our Pain

7 reviews
Elisabeth Elliot

Vine Books, 1992

Reconciling Faith and Suffering
I was born with health issues and have suffered for many years of my life as a result. I am now an adult and have rarely enjoyed life without significant pain of some kind. I have been prayed for, prayed over, told I lacked faith, preached to, felt sorry for, etc. But this book puts meaning and purpose not only in suffering, but in faith through suffering. With the additional quotes from the ...

Sufferings in Africa: The Incredible True Story of a Shipwreck, Enslavement, and Survival on the Sahara

5 reviews
Captain James Riley

Skyhorse Publishing, 2007

An incredible true story and a great read
I was surprised I'd never heard of this book, supposedly one of the books Abraham Lincoln considered influential. It is the true story of an American sea captain who is shipwrecked and taken prisoner, then enslaved, by Arabs. Through his ingenious bargaining and a leap of faith, he convinces and Arab trader to trade all of his goods for the captain and some companions from his ship. He ...

An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World

25 reviews
Pankaj Mishra

Picador, 2005

Buddha, worldview, and philosophy
Easily the best book I have read on the topic - I just didn't guess correctly what the topic was! I thought it would be about involved Buddhism. It turned out to be part autobiography, part biography of the Buddha, part Buddhist history and teaching, part travelogue, part history of philosophy (although jumping from Greek to modern/contemporary), all in the service of a look at the world. The ...

Suffering Presence

1 review
Stanley Hauerwas

University of Notre Dame Press, 1986

Intense and thoughtful
Stanley Hauerwas presents a thoughtful and theologically sound examination of health and suffering. This is a "must read" for anyone doing Christian ministry from chaplaincy to the parish.

Peace from Nervous Suffering

29 reviews
Claire Weekes

Signet, 1990

Saved my life
Many years ago I suffered from agoraphobia, not even having a clue at the time what that meant. While I was never housebound, everyday situations like riding in cars, sitting in the boss's office, or going to the grocery store could produce almost heart-stopping anxiety. I was virtually paralyzed in my life, and certainly would never have accomplished any important life goals in that state -- a ...

The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

2 reviews
Eric J. Cassell

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Very helpful for sufferers of chronic illness.
The author identifies the effects of chronic and acute illness on each integral part of the sufferer, and describes personal attributes/approaches of patients that enhance their ability to live with their condition. This book is an inspiring insight into strategies for finding new meaning in life after loss of mobility and during years of living with chronic pain. I refer to it each time ...

THE SUFFERING OF GOD (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

8 reviews
Terence, E. Frethheim

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1984

How does God feel?
As other reviewers have noted, the idea of God's vulnerability is often overlooked in church and theological conversations - the immutability of God and omnipotence of God would seem to contradict the idea of a God who feels, much less suffers, in the way the human beings can understand. Fretheim's wonderful text, part of the Fortress Press series of Overtures to Biblical Theology, explores ...

The New Sufferings of Young W

1 review
Ulrich Plenzdorf

Waveland Press, 1996

One of my all time favorites
I had to read this book in a German Lit course in college about 10 years ago. I loved it. It is a must read for any fan of "Catcher in the Rye." I loaned it to all my friends, unfortunately, somewhere along the line I never got it back. I have been looking for the book for about 4 years now... that is how great of a story it is. Glad to see it finally available here...

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