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CONTENTS-Where is God When it Hurts:Spirituality of Suffering-1

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE.

THE CHALLENGE OF SUFFERING

1. Physical Sufferings
2. Psychological Sufferings
3. Social Sufferings
4. Moral and Religious Sufferings

CHAFFER TWO.

WHY WOULD A GOOD GOD ALLOW SUFFERING? 

1. In the Realm of Mystery
2. Answer from Scripture
3. Answer from the Magisterium
4. Answer from Tradition

Augustine on Evil and Suffering

Irenaeus on Evil and Suffering

Aquinas on Evil and Suffering

Saint Therese of Lisieux on Evil and Suffering

5. Answer from Theological Reason

5.1. Wrong Answer

5.2. True Meaning of the Goodness of God

5.3. God Tries Us out of Love for Us

5.4. The Need for Natural Laws

5.5. Pain as an Integral Part of Our Experience

5.6. Suffering Comes with the Freedom to Choose

5.7. Suffering Can Alert Us

5.8. Suffering as the School of Obedience and Other Virtues

5.9. Suffering as the School of Self-Surrender

5.10. The Agony, Then the Ecstasy

5.11. God’s Suffering

5.12. Other Reasons

5.13. Lessons from the Tsunami Tragedy

6. Answer from the Religions

6.1. Answer from Hinduism

6.2. Answer from Buddhism

6.3. Answer from Islam

7. Answer from Philosophers

7.1. Leibniz on the Problem of Evil

7.2. Other Philosophical Explanations

8. Animal Pain

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTE

INDEX