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Why Suffering?: Finding Meaning and Comfort When Life Doesn't Make Sense Hardcover - 2014

by Ravi Zacharias; Vince Vitale


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Why would a loving and powerful God allow so much pain and suffering? In Why Suffering? Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale carefully walk you through a variety of responses that considered together provide a clear, comprehensive, and convincing answer. Responses like:

  • Where there is the possibility of love, there has to be the reality of freedom, and therefore the possibility of pain.
  • Wishing God had made a different world is to wish yourself out of existence.
  • The cross is the key to a compelling and rational explanation for trusting in God in the face of suffering.
  • In comparison with other world religions, the Christian response is highly distinctive.
  • The reality of evil only makes sense in light of the reality of divine goodness.
  • Relational knowledge about God takes the argument beyond reason to the presence of God amidst suffering.
  • God's decision to allow temporal suffering is understandable when viewed from an eternal perspective.
  • Divine goodness shows how to conquer not in spite of, but even through suffering.
Here is a book written with great respect for the complexity of the issue, recognizing that some who read it will be in the trenches of deep suffering themselves and others questioning the very existence of a loving God. Why Suffering? provides an answer to the problem of pain and suffering with emotional sensitivity and intellectual integrity.

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  • Title Why Suffering?: Finding Meaning and Comfort When Life Doesn't Make Sense
  • Author Ravi Zacharias; Vince Vitale
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Faithwords
  • Date 2014-10-21
  • ISBN 9781455549702 / 1455549703
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.04 x 5.99 x 0.89 in (25.50 x 15.21 x 2.26 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Religious
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Pain - Religious aspects - Christianity, Suffering - Religious aspects - Christianity
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014019130
  • Dewey Decimal Code 231.8

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Citations

  • CBA Retailers, 08/01/2014, Page 34
  • Christian Retailing, 10/01/2014, Page 18

About the author

Ravi Zacharias is the Founder and President of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with additional offices in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Austria, South Africa, Spain, and Turkey. Zacharias and his wife, Margie, have three grown children. He is the author of many books, including Can Man Live Without God and Why Jesus? Dr. Vince Vitale is Director of the Zacharias Institute. He was educated at Princeton University and the University of Oxford, and later taught philosophy of religion as a faculty member at both universities. During his undergraduate studies at Princeton, Dr. Vitale took an unexpected journey that led him to God. Later, while at Oxford, he developed a new response the problem of evil. This response -- termed the Non-Identity Defense -- is discussed in his and Ravi Zacharias's previous book, Why Suffering? He is married to Jo, who also works for RZIM.
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