Naming the silences : God, medicine, and the problem of suffering

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Naming the silences : God, medicine, and the problem of suffering

Title remainder

God, medicine, and the problem of suffering

Statement of responsibility

Stanley Hauerwas

Creator

• Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-

Subject

• Children -- Death | Religious aspects | Christianity
• Christian ethics -- Methodist authors
• Christianity -- 20th century
• Christianity -- psychology
• Consolation
• Attitude to Death
• Medicine -- Religious aspects | Christianity
• Religion and Medicine
• Suffering -- Religious aspects | Christianity
• Theodicy
• Grief

Language

eng

Summary

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

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DLC

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography