Naming the silences :
Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-
Naming the silences : God, medicine, and the problem of suffering / Stanley Hauerwas. - Grand Rapids, MI : Wm. B. Eerdmans, c1990. - xiv, 154 p. ; pbk ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 152) and index.
A Child's Dying -- Theology, Theodicy, and Medicine -- Medicine as Theodicy.
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." --From publisher's description.
0802804969 :
90044121
Suffering--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Children--Death--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Theodicy.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christianity--20th century.
Consolation.
Christian ethics--Methodist authors.
231.8/HAU
Naming the silences : God, medicine, and the problem of suffering / Stanley Hauerwas. - Grand Rapids, MI : Wm. B. Eerdmans, c1990. - xiv, 154 p. ; pbk ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 152) and index.
A Child's Dying -- Theology, Theodicy, and Medicine -- Medicine as Theodicy.
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." --From publisher's description.
0802804969 :
90044121
Suffering--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Children--Death--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Theodicy.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christianity--20th century.
Consolation.
Christian ethics--Methodist authors.
231.8/HAU
