God, Evil, and Innocent Suffering
Author: John E. Thiel
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John Thiel insists that some people who suffer are truly innocent.
Author: John E. Thiel
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John Thiel insists that some people who suffer are truly innocent.
Author: Thomas G. Long
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 0802871399
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 ... he offers biblically based approaches to preaching on theodicy, guided by Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares and the "greatest theodicy text in Scripture"--The book of Job. - from book jacket.
Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1433501155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.
Author: Michael R. Saia
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2014-03-27
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781629523453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why Do the Innocent Suffer? If God is loving and powerful, why did He allow suffering to exist? If God is all loving, and all powerful, couldn't He stop all suffering? Why are innocent children born deformed? Why are there wars? What about tornadoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis? Doesn't God care about all the people who are suffering in the world? Peter Warren, Southwest USA Director of Youth With A Mission, says: I love Mike's passion to defend the Character of God and how he backs up every single point with the Word of God. The fact that he does this, instead of simply giving his own ideas or impressions, gives great authority to what he is saying. So many young people, which is the bulk of those I work with, have grown up with deep misunderstandings and questions about God's love when they see innocent people suffering. Very few of them have had any Biblically-based teaching on the subject. I wish every single one of them could read this book! Dean Harvey, Pastor, Teacher, and Missionary with Youth With a Mission, observes: Why Do The Innocent Suffer? is the most comprehensive discussion of this topic I have ever seen. Saia compares the various religious and philosophical reasons offered to answer this question, then solves the problem with a thoroughly Biblical answer. We might summarize the message of the book as an answer to the question of Moses in Genesis 18:25, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" Mike's thorough exegesis of the book of Job is a highlight of the book, and would serve every pastor and teacher very well. Michael R. Saia had a teaching ministry as a missionary for seventeen years. He and his wife traveled extensively, teaching in missionary training schools, churches, and seminars. Mike is a published author with a book on counseling that won the "Book of the Year" award from Cornerstone magazine. Mike also authored Does God Know the Future?, Understanding the Cross, and Why Pray? Mike, his wife, Carol, and their son, Michael, live in Washington State.
Author: Gregory A. Boyd
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2003-09-09
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780830823949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wrestling with the question, Is God to blame?, Gregory A. Boyd offers a hopeful picture of a sovereign God who is relentlessly opposed to evil, who knows our sufferings and who can be trusted to bring us through them to renewed life.
Author: Harold S. Kushner
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0805241930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers an inspirational and compassionate approach to understanding the problems of life, and argues that we should continue to believe in God's fairness.
Author: Bruno Webb
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1928832768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this slim volume, you'll find the most convincing explanation of the mystery of evil available today.
Author: D A CARSON
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
Published: 2020-05-21
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1789740312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →My soul is in anguish. How long, O Lord, how long?' (Psalm 6:8) Personal tragedy and heartache. Accident, illness and infirmity. Drought, earthquake, tsunami. Terrorist atrocities. War, genocide, poverty, famine. All we have to do is live long enough, and we will suffer in one way or another. In this new edition of an excellent, widely appreciated study, Don Carson addresses the issue of evil and suffering with sensitivity, pastoral concern and biblical insight. He helps Christians prepare for the day when they have to experience a 'frowning providence', and face it with faith and hope because of an unshakable trust in the providence of God.
Author: Gustavo Gutirrez
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1608331245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of this century's most eminent theologians addresses the eternal questions of the relationship of good and evil, linking the story of Job to the lives of the poor and oppressed of our world.
Author: Safaruk Chowdhury
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2021-04-06
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 164903055X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A rigorous study of the problem of evil in Islamic theology Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, who is perfectly good, compassionate, merciful, powerful, and wise permits intense and profuse evil and suffering in the world. At its core, Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil explores four different problems of evil: human disability, animal suffering, evolutionary natural selection, and Hell. Each study argues in favor of a particular kind of explanation or justification (theodicy) for the respective evil. Safaruk Chowdhury unpacks the notion of evil and its conceptualization within the mainstream Sunni theological tradition, and the various ways in which theologians and philosophers within that tradition have advanced different types of theodicies. He not only builds on previous works on the topic, but also looks at kinds of theodicies previously unexplored within Islamic theology, such as an evolutionary theodicy. Distinguished by its application of an analytic-theology approach to the subject and drawing on insights from works of both medieval Muslim theologians and philosophers and contemporary philosophers of religion, this novel and highly systematic study will appeal to students and scholars, not only of theology but of philosophy as well.