9780892832194
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Making Sense Out of Suffering available in Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0892832193
- ISBN-13:
- 9780892832194
- Pub. Date:
- 07/28/1986
- Publisher:
- Franciscan Media
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780892832194 |
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| Publisher: | Franciscan Media |
| Publication date: | 07/28/1986 |
| Pages: | 184 |
| Sales rank: | 227,456 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.18(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d) |
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Making Sense Out of Suffering
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This is the best book I've ever read that deals with suffering. Accurate with the Bible and helpful. Highly recommend it.
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Kreeft is genius in his ability to simplify areas of human wonder. Those who are not familiar with Kreeft's work should do some homework on who he is, and what he does...this may shed some light on how he approaches to answer questions with the use of dialogue and supurb logic. Readers who either can't or won't appreciate sound logic as a foundation for exploring debate through both or multiples sides of an issue risk prejudging his works as overly spiritual, or applicable only in philosophy classrooms. In this title, Kreeft helps to point out the perspective of suffering, how suffering can be justified, if suffering really occurs...or on what level does it occur within the individual. He also helps to point out the purpose of suffering, how it can help us, and its position to its opposite 'pleasure'. Granted this may not be the best title to read as your first book from Peter Kreeft. There are many other quicker reads that give a softer introduction to his method of writing. Still, his books deliver what they promiss.
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I was greatly disappointed by this book. Sufffering from a chronic illness I wanted a Christian book to really help me with it. Instead the author goes into a philosophical debate against paganism, relativism, Satanism (how this came up, beats me!) and presumes that the reader has read a book called 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People'. It seemed to me that the author had an ax to grind when it came to this other book and his presumption that the reader has also read this book seems like the author thinks that every one who suffers has read it. Basically if you want a meaning to your suffering try praying the psalms or reading something else if you are more of a philosopher, this book me be up your alley.
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