Famine. Sickness. Terrorist Attacks. Natural disasters.
Each day horrific scenes of suffering are streamed before us through television, the Internet, and newspapers. Believers are taught that God is good, and they believe this truth. Yet when they are faced with suffering and hardships, the one question believers most often asked is, Why?
Suffering and the Goodness of God brings insight to many contemporary concerns of suffering by outlining Old and New Testament truths and tackling difficult questions concerning God's sovereignty, human freedom, and the nature of evil.
This book offers believers biblical truths concerning suffering and then challenges them to promote justice in the harsh, unsure world around them and to emulate God's grace as they minister to those who are suffering.
Part of the Theology in Community series.
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction, Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson
Christ and the Crocodiles: Suffering and the Goodness of God in Contemporary
Perspective
Robert W. Yarbrough
Suffering and the Goodness of God in the Old Testament
Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
Eight Kinds of Suffering in the Old Testament
Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
Suffering and the Goodness of God in the Gospels
Dan G. McCartney
Suffering in the Teaching of the Apostles
Dan G. McCartney
Suffering and the Biblical Story Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A.
Peterson
The Problem of Evil
John M. Frame
Suffering and Oppression
William Edgar
Poems in the Park: My Cancer and Gods Grace
David B. Calhoun
A Journey in Suffering: Personal Reflections on the Religious Problem of
Evil
John S. Feinberg
Selected Bibliography
General Index
Scripture Index
Christopher W. Morgan (PhD, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary) is a professor of theology and the dean of the School of Christian Ministries at California Baptist University. He is also the lead pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Highland, CA. He is the author or editor of over twenty books, including several volumes in the Theology in Community series.
Robert A. Peterson (PhD, Drew University) is a writer and theologian. He taught for many years at various theological seminaries and has written or edited over thirty books.
