God, Medicine, and Suffering
Why does a good and all-powerful God allow us to experience pain and suffering? According to Stanley Hauerwas, asking this question is a theological mistake. Drawing heavily on stories of ill and dying children to illustrate and clarify his discussion of theological-philosophical issues, Hauerwas explores why we so fervently seek explanations for suffering and evil, and he shows how modern medicine has become a god to which we look (in vain) for deliverance from the evils of disease and mortality.
- Author
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 168
- Publisher
- Eerdmans
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780802808967
- Genres
- theology, christianity, medicine, religion, christian, philosophy, spirituality, science
- Release date
- 1994
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