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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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God, Medicine, and Suffering

by Stanley M. Hauerwas

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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.

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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.
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ISBN:
9780802808967
Author:
Hauerwas, Stanley
Publisher:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Author:
Hauerwas, Stanley M.
Subject:
Inspirational
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Children
Subject:
Death
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Christian ethics
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Christianity - Christian Life
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Christianity - Christian Life - General
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Christian Life - General
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Grief
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Consolation
Publication Date:
January 1995
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Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
154
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8.42x5.36x.48 in. .44 lbs.
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