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The Hardest Problem

God, Evil and Suffering

  • Hardback
  • 144 pages
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • 13.8 x 20.2 x 2 cm

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Want to understand why suffering exists?

This clear and compelling book offers a thoughtful response to suffering

You'll find brief discussions that help you on your own journey of thought

Why does evil exist? Why does God allow suffering? These questions are commonly asked and rarely answered in a satisfying way. This short book offers thoughtful steps toward an answer.
Anna Hockley

Anna Hockley

Eden Christian Books Specialist

To many, the problem of evil and suffering constitutes by far the most serious objection to mainstream religious belief. For all its starkness and salience, though, the dilemma is also widely misinterpreted. That visceral feelings often dominate discussion is understandable on one level. But this can displace the clearer-headed thinking needed to shed greater light on the subject.

In this brief but broad-ranging book, Rupert Shortt shows that belief in a divine Creator is much more coherent intellectually than many sceptics suppose. Basic misconceptions about core aspects of Judaism, Christianity and Islam can in turn spawn still greater caricatures of subjects including divine power. Having cleared the ground, Shortt goes on to discuss the nature of evil from a classical Abrahamic standpoint and how Christian resources in particular offer guidance in an area where raw emotion, conceptual thought and the deepest trials of the spirit overlap. If the dilemma has no clear solution, that need not discredit sensitive and creative ways of grappling with it.

The Hardest Problem is an accessible contemporary reflection on the perennial question of human suffering.

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  • Author

    Rupert Shortt

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    John Murray Press

  • Published

    September 2022

  • Weight

    229g

  • Page Count

    144

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 20.2 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781399802710

  • ISBN-10

    1399802712

  • Eden Code

    5685197

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