The Problem of Pain
by C. S. Lewis
Lewis's intellectual treatment of suffering: divine omnipotence and goodness, human wickedness, the fall, pain as God's megaphone, hell, animal pain, heaven. Rigorous and cool; A Grief Observed is its emotional counterpart written after his wife's death.
Read it if…
you want the philosophical treatment of why a good God permits suffering.
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Skip it if…
you are grieving now; read A Grief Observed instead.
Try instead: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering →
Three things you will actually use
- Pain is God's megaphone to a deaf world.
- We are not asked to be comfortable but to be made good.
- Tribulation is necessary for redemption.
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Read the chapter on human pain.
Our verdict
Suffering, argued.
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