| Format: | Paperback |
| Page Count: | 64 |
| Size: | 4.5 in x 6.5 in |
| Weight: | 1.64 ounces |
| ISBN-10: | 1-4335-9800-0 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-4335-9800-5 |
| ISBN-UPC: | 9781433598005 |
| Case Quantity: | 168 |
| Published: | March 04, 2025 |
Addressing Doubts about God’s Justice and Goodness in the Face of Evil
In the face of evil and suffering, many people question God’s goodness. Even faithful Christians may struggle to see God’s justice when they experience the heartache, pain, and tragedies of our broken world. Why does God seem to remain silent when we need him the most?
Collin Hansen’s short and accessible guide answers suffering peoples’ questions about God’s character by exploring the stories of Job, Jesus, and the Jewish people during the horrific events of the Holocaust. Ideal for both skeptics and Christians who want to help others in their pain, this booklet reminds us that God speaks through the cries of his people and offers us the gift of his Son—a suffering servant who makes all things new.
- Great for Personal Use and Evangelism: Ideal for both skeptics and Christians who want to help others in their pain
- Short, Accessible Format: Combines anecdotes, a historical overview of moral revolution, testimonies from sufferers in the Bible, and literature to answer doubts about God’s goodness
- Part of the TGC Hard Questions Series: Equips readers with answers to difficult questions facing today’s church
Author:
Collin Hansen (MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the vice president for content and editor in chief for the Gospel Coalition and the executive director of the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. He hosts the Gospelbound podcast and wrote Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation. He is an adjunct professor and cochair of the advisory board at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. You can follow him on X at @collinhansen.
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Endorsements
“The problem of evil is the biggest challenge to Christian faith in every generation. Collin Hansen’s short, wise, and thoughtful book is a superb resource for thinking deeply about it and responding with compassion and clarity.”
Andrew Wilson, Teaching Pastor, King’s Church London
“This is a very helpful book for those who wrestle with the presence of evil in our world. I consider myself one of those strugglers. This book encouraged me to keep wrestling with an eye to the much bigger picture of all that God has done, is doing, and will do.”
Randy Newman, Late Senior Fellow for Apologetics and Evangelism, C. S. Lewis Institute; author, Questioning Faith and Bringing the Gospel Home
“As a counselor, I have seen the desperate urgency of hurting people asking how God could allow their pain. At the heart of this concise, tender, humble, and intellectually honest book is the best answer we can possibly give: ‘God is not asking for silence . . . [or] demanding the stiff upper lip.’ Instead, he welcomes our cry for justice as the echo of his own. Thoughtful and highly contextualized for our current cultural instincts, Hansen’s book is easy to recommend.”
J. Alasdair Groves, Executive Director, Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation; coauthor, Untangling Emotions
“The problem of evil, and in particular the Holocaust, is the greatest challenge to faith. From a biblical and pastoral perspective, Hansen tackles this challenge with boldness and compassion. While not offering easy answers, he argues how the Christian faith offers hope and justice amid the greatest evil imaginable.”
Sean McDowell, Associate Professor of Christian Apologetics, Biola University; author, A New Kind of Apologist
“What I love about this book is that Hansen grapples with evil and suffering not as a notional or abstract concept but by forcing the reader to reckon with some of the twentieth century’s most agonizing moral events, particularly Hitler’s and Stalin’s brutality. Hansen ably communicates how the Christian worldview—chiefly, Jesus himself—helps explain our agonies and ultimately remedies them. What an irony it is that one of Christianity’s chief objections—the problem of suffering—can become one of its greatest testimonies.”
Andrew T. Walker, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Fellow, The Ethics and Public Policy Center