The Problem of Pain
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061947681 (0061947687)
Publish date: June 2nd 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
One of my favorite quotes (not from the chapter "Heaven", in case you were wondering.) "One can imagine a sentient picture, after being rubbed and scraped and re-commenced for the tenth time, wishing that it were only a thumb-nail sketch whose making was over in a minute. In the same way, it is natu...
I first read The Problem of Pain when I was an impressionable teenager in search of the meaning of life. How I got to C.S. Lewis, however, is a long story that I'll reserve for another post/review. Anyway, I loved the The Problem of Pain when I first read it. I couldn't put it down. When I star...
"One can imagine a sentient picture, after being rubbed and scraped and re-commenced for the tenth time, wishing that it were only a thumb-nail sketch whose making was over in a minute. In the same way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destin...
< -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pPoRnjFC6E&feature=relatedPersonally, I lean more towards the latter camp. Lewis does at least make a good, solid, and sophisticated effort to address the problem of: "Why does God allow so much pain and suffering, if He is really a loving God, and if He reall...
In the introduction to the book, Lewis mentions that this is part of a series of books written by a variety of people. It would be interesting to know what the series was, in order to know more about the audience he was writing for. Clearly, Lewis expected his audience to be fairly well-versed in ...
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