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How can an all-good and all-powerful God not only allow suffering, but create beings so vulnerable that they cannot even contend with the basic demands of life?
For Mark Wallace Maguire, that question became more than a theological problem. It became personal. Drawing from nearly two decades as the father of a son with a rare chromosome deletion, Maguire set out to find an answer. Over six months, he interviewed five fathers raising children with special needs. They come from different Christian traditions, and their children have different diagnoses. Yet each father shares a willingness to confront the same challenging questions of suffering, faith, love, and the goodness of God.
Beginning with C.S. Lewis's answers in The Problem of Pain, Maguire describes his own journey through uncertainty, grief, exhaustion, and unexpected joy. Along the way, he discovers that the answers he was seeking may not be found in explanations, but in the willingness to enter the darkness and remain there long enough to see what it reveals. Part memoir, part spiritual pilgrimage, and part theological reflection, But First, We Must Begin in the Dark offers no easy answers. Instead, it asks what happens when the life we imagined is replaced by one we never expected and whether suffering can reshape our understanding of God, our children, and ourselves.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - How can an all-good and all-powerful God not only allow suffering, but create beings so vulnerable that they cannot even contend with the basic demands of life For Mark Wallace Maguire, this was not an abstract theological question. It became painfully personal.As the father of a son with profound special needs, Maguire found himself confronting questions that no Sunday school answer could settle. What does suffering mean when it becomes part of your everyday life Where is God when the people you love most are struggling simply to get through the day And what does faith look like when certainty begins to disappear Then he began to search.Over the course of six months, Maguire wrestled with the writings of C.S. Lewis, Henri Nouwen, and other thinkers while seeking out the stories and wisdom of five fathers who had each encountered suffering in deeply personal ways. Their experiences challenged his assumptions, exposed the limitations of easy answers, and forced him to reconsider what he believed about God, suffering, fatherhood, and faith.But First, We Must Begin in the Dark is not an attempt to solve the problem of suffering. It is an honest journey into its heart.There are no simple answers here. There is no tidy theological formula that makes suffering disappear.Instead, there is a father willing to ask difficult questionsnd to follow those questions wherever they lead.For anyone who has ever wondered where God is in the midst of suffering, doubted what they once believed, or struggled to reconcile faith with a broken world, this is an invitation to begin again.Sometimes, before we can find our way toward the light, we must first be willing to begin in the dark. Seller Inventory # 9798218827557
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