The Problem of Pain - Softcover

Lewis, C. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805420495 ISBN 13: 9780805420494

Publisher: B & H Pub Group, 2000

Synopsis

Paperback. Pages: 176 Publisher: HarperOne Please note the pages on this book have been produced with bevelled or rough edge to create an old style look. The publisher has deliberately chosen to produce the book this way. For centuries Christians have been tormented by one question above all - If God is good and all-powerful. why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain CS Lewis sets out to disentangle this knotty issue but wisely adds that in the end no intellectual solution can dispense with the necessity for patience and courage.

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Review

‘It is really a pleasure to be able to praise a book unreservedly, and that is just what I can do with “The Problem of Pain”.’ Guardian

‘A really remarkable book. It says so many things which seem to me to need saying today. It will help many people to revise what they had taken for granted and face possibilities which had not occurred to them.’ Spectator

About the Author

Born in Ireland in 1898, Clive Staples Lewis gained a triple First at Oxford and was Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College from 1925-54, where he was a contemporary of Tolkien. In 1954 he became Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. C. S. Lewis was for many years an atheist, until his conversion, memorably described in his autobiography ‘Surprised by Joy’: “I gave in, and admitted that God was God … perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” He is celebrated for his famous series of children’s books, the Narnia Chronicles (which have been filmed and broadcast many times), as well as his literary criticism and science fiction. C. S. Lewis died on 22nd November 1963.

Edition details

• Publisher: B & H Pub Group
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0805420495
• ISBN 13: 9780805420494
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English