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Sources on Suffering and Evil Buttrick, George Arthur. God, Pain and Evil. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966. Calvin, John. Commentaries on the First Epistle of Peter. Vol. 22 of Calvin's Commentaries; Repr., Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999. Carson, D. A. How Long O Lord? Grand Rapids: Inter-Varsity, 1990. Clowney, Edmund. The Message of 1 Peter: The Way of the Cross. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1988. Kreeft, Peter. Making ...

The Hope in Suffering–A Pastoral Response Dear Mr. Wiesel has in fact rejected the very person who causes suffering to have meaning, the very medium, in the Cross, through which the Lord gives those who suffer hope, and the only one who has promised to ultimately deliver from suffering and evil. It is that Israeli of ancient time, Jesus ...

Resolution in The Cross of Christ In the introduction to Wiesel's Night, François Mauriac contemplates the day in which the young Wiesel had questioned him about God and evil. He writes:What did I say to him? Did I speak of that other Israeli, his brother, who may have resembled him – the Crucified, whose Cross has conquered ...

Prescript: One of the most difficult and fecund projects I had during my time at Westminster Seminary was to write read Elie Wiesel’s Night and then write a pastoral response to him, as if he had come into my pastor’s study and laid out his story (that of a Jewish youth in concentration camps in Nazi Europe), desiring counsel and ...

“Despair, or folly?” said Gandalf. “It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.” -- What in the world does Gandalf the ...