Why God?

by Burton Z. Cooper

Book Overview

This book is a sensitive inquiry for anyone who has ever suffered and who wants to think through it theologically. It is a compassionate resource for coming to grips with pain, suffering, and evil. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804207313
• ISBN13: 9780804207317
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Read this book if you are asking,"Where is God when I hurt?"

I strongly recommend this book to those who might be struggling with accepting that God might have had something to do with causing the pain or sorrow in their lives. Burton Cooper is a man of great compassion and wisdom. This book offers something of a challenge to traditional thinking about, "Why bad things happen if there is a good God." Many have said, "God made it happen for a larger good," or "God gives us trials to strengthen us." Burton rejects these answers and asks us to imagine a