The Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is also the
author of A Community of Character.
Summary
Why does a good and all-powerful God allow us to experience pain and suffering? According to Stanley Hauerwas,
asking this question is a theological mistake. Drawing heavily on stories of ill and dying children to illustrate
and clarify his discussion of theological-philosophical issues, Hauerwas explores why we so fervently seek explanations
for suffering and evil, and he shows how modern medicine has become a god to which we look (in vain) for deliverance
from the evils of disease and mortality.
