Naming the silences
Subtitle: God, medicine, and the problem of suffering
By: Stanley Hauerwas.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Children -- Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Theodicy; Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Christianity -- 20th century; Consolation; Christian ethics -- Methodist authors
Description: Drawing heavily on stories of ill and dying children to illustrate and clarify his discussion of theological issues, Stanley Hauerwas explores why we seek explanations for suffering and evil so desperately in today's world. Modern medicine, he declares, has too often become a noisy way to hide the gaping silences created by the painful experience of childhood illness and death. Alternatively, he shows us a God who "can give a voice to that pain in a manner that at least gives us a way to go on."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 152) and index.