Product Description

Evil and suffering present a significant challenge to
Christian belief in a good and all-powerful God. Peter Hicks expounds a
range of biblical texts, setting evil and suffering in the context of God's
ultimate triumph through Jesus Christ.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1076539 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Publisher
An excellent exposition and application of biblical
perspectives on two challenging themes

From the Author
I started writing this book and soon gave up. A publisher
urgently wanted a book on God, and I decided that God was a much more
attractive theme than evil and suffering.

But I am very grateful that, once I had spent two or three months focusing
on God, I returned to evil and suffering. Starting with a long hard look at
God is a tremendous help when we have to face any problem issue. And the
fact is that I personally have been greatly helped and encouraged by
studying what the Bible says about evil and suffering. For a quarter of a
century I have worked with students at undergraduate and postgraduate level
on the philosophical problem of evil. Wise though the insights of many
thinkers through the ages may be, it has been so refreshing and exciting to
turn from human theodicies to God's own answer outlined for us in the
Bible.

Yes, the problem is big. But God is bigger.

Peter Hicks - May 2006

From the Back Cover
`The Bible Speaks Today series is brilliant for tuning in to
God's voice.'
ROGER FORSTER

`I have found The Bible Speaks Today volumes inspirational and scholarly,
and of enormous practical use.'
STEPHEN GAUKROGER

Evil and suffering have always been part of human experience - and they
present a significant challenge to Christian belief in a good and
all-powerful God.

Evil and suffering may be a mystery to us, but they are not a mystery to
God. The Bible writers have no time for an unreal idealism, in which the
life of faith is free from anguish, pain and perplexity. They are confident
that God's power and wisdom are great enough not just to cope with the
realities of suffering and evil, but to overcome and transform them, and to
enable us to be `more than conquerors' in a broken and hurting world.

With warmth and clarity, Peter Hicks expounds a range of relevant biblical
texts that enable us to set the issue of evil and suffering firmly in the
context of the nature and purposes of God. Central to his approach is the
conviction that the key lies in the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ,
the suffering and triumph of God himself. In valuable practical sections he
explores the Bible's teaching on how we are to live in a world of evil and
suffering.

Peter Hicks is a Baptist pastor who for many years was on the staff of
London School of Theology, lecturing in philosophy and pastoral care. He is
the author of a number of books including 'What Could I Say?', 'What Could
I Do?', 'What Could I Be?', 'Discovering Revelation', 'Evangelicals and
Truth', and 'The Journey So Far: Philosophy Through the Ages'.

The Bible Speaks Today describes three series of expositions, based on the
books of the Old and New Testaments, and on Bible themes that run through
the whole of Scripture.