num_pages: 168
description: 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.
language: English
title: God, Medicine, and Suffering
titlecomplete: God, Medicine, and Suffering
genres: Medicine, Medical Ethics, Religion, Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, Theology, Health Care, Christian, Christianity
ratings_count: 209
publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source