What Does the Bible Say about Suffering?
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The quest for an answer to the problem of suffering is universal.
People often treat Scripture like a manual, looking for a single clear response that explains the presence of evil and suffering. Brian Han Gregg thinks we should take a different approach.
The Bible does not have one but many responses to suffering. To pick out one theme is to hear the sopranos but miss the choir. We need to listen to the whole biblical narrative to appreciate its multifaceted handling of the problem.
What Does the Bible Say About Suffering? explores twelve themes related to the issue of human suffering and reflects on what we can learn from the diversity of the biblical witness. Readable and informed by biblical scholarship, this book is a timely resource for students, small groups and anyone looking for a fresh approach to a topic of perennial interest.
- Examines the whole biblical narrative to appreciate its multifaceted handling of the problem
- Reflects on what we can learn from the diversity of the biblical witness
- Explores twelve themes related to the issue of human suffering
- Introduction
- The Two Ways: Suffering and the God of Justice
- Sin Is Lurking at the Door: Suffering and Choice
- The Purposes of God: Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
- The Accuser: Suffering and the Devil
- I Am: The Mystery of Suffering
- God Wins: Suffering and the Future
- Running the Race: Suffering as Training
- Confronting the Truth: Suffering as Testing
- Jars of Clay: Suffering and the Power of Weakness
- Pass It On: Suffering and the Comfort of God
- The Cruciform Path to Glory: Following God into Suffering
- To Suffer for Another: Participation in the Suffering of God
- Conclusion
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to the problem of evil and suffering. How could a good God allow such bad things in a world he created? The answer depends on which part of the Bible we read. Indeed, there are different strategies within the Scriptures that deal with the complex problem of evil and suffering. That's the genius of Brian Gregg’s approach to the question, what does the Bible say about suffering? He lets the voices within Scripture speak to the problem without treating the Bible as an answer book that solves every riddle.
—Rodney Reeves, dean, Redford Professor of Biblical Studies, Southwest Baptist University
In this remarkable book, Brian Gregg explores the mystery of suffering with the mind of a biblical scholar and the heart of a pastor and teacher. The result is a thoroughly scriptural and truly pastoral approach to the problem of pain. As Gregg shows, the Bible doesn’t have just one answer to the question of suffering—but it does have answers. This book needs to be read by every pastor, every teacher, and every person interested in learning how to trust God with the answers he gives as well as the questions that remain.
—Brant Pitre, professor of Sacred Scripture, Notre Dame Seminary
Brian Gregg takes up the question of suffering with a full realization that Scripture provides not one but numerous ways of addressing this perennial issue. Examining each of these ways with insight and sensitivity, this book does not attempt an abstract philosophical answer to suffering but a way forward in its wake, a way that is marked by both biblical faithfulness and pastoral sensitivity. Such an approach will be appreciated by many.
—Kimlyn J. Bender, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University
- Title: What Does the Bible Say about Suffering?
- Author: Brian Han Gregg
- Publisher: IVP Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Suffering › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9780830893539, 9780830851454, 0830893539, 0830851453
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830893539
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:55:08Z