Why, God?
Written by a lay theologian, this addresses Christians who are dissatisfied with solutions to the problems of evil that emphasize God's sovereignty. Turning to biblical passages he believes are often overlooked, Cooper stresses instead God's vulnerability throughout history, and his identification with pain, culminating in Jesus's death on the cross. This is a sort of Christian restatement of themes popularized by Harold Kushner in When Bad Things Happen to Good People ( LJ 9/1/81). Stimulating liberal exegesis in a format suited to thoughtful lay readers. ECCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.