Philosophy
The Problem of Pain
1940·148 pages
C. S. Lewis explores why pain exists if God is good and all-powerful. A thoughtful Christian perspective on suffering.
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C. S. Lewis explores why pain exists if God is good and all-powerful. A thoughtful Christian perspective on suffering.
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Why must humanity suffer? In this elegant and thoughtful work, C. S. Lewis questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how this contrasts with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent and good. An answer to this critical theological problem is found within these pages.
"If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?" And what about the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of o...
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Central Christian themes; explores God's nature and human suffering.
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