The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
- Description: Lewis addresses the age-old question of why a good God allows suffering, offering a thoughtful and compassionate exploration of pain.
- Themes: Suffering, God’s goodness, and the purpose of pain.
- Strengths: Intellectual yet accessible, with deep insights into a difficult topic.
- Weaknesses: Some readers find it overly philosophical or abstract.
- Review: A classic work that provides comfort and clarity on the problem of suffering.
Excerpts:
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”
“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.”
