Naming the silences

Description:

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."--Publisher's description.

subjects: Children,  Christian ethics,  Christianity,  Consolation,  Death,  Medicine,  Methodist authors,  Religious aspects,  Religious aspects of Medicine,  Religious aspects of Suffering,  Suffering,  Theodicy,  Psychology,  Attitude to Death,  Religion and Medicine,  Grief,  Morale chrétienne,  Souffrance,  Mort,  Médecine,  Théodicée,  Auteurs méthodistes,  Aspect religieux,  Christianisme,  Enfants,  Suffering, religious aspects,  Children, death,  Children, religious life,  Medicine, religious aspects,  Christianity, 20th century,  Christian life, methodist authors,  Religion,  Metaphysics,  Medical Ethics

Times: 20th century