The Problem of Pain

Pain is a universal and inevitable mystery that overwhelms and baffles human beings. More or less anaesthetic formulas are often proposed - passive resignation, escapism, annulment of the will - but in no case do they resolve the questions that every man asks himself: What is the meaning of suffering? How does painful reality harmonise with divine goodness? Lewis delves into The Problem of Pain to extract hope with the weapons that have won him the appreciation of his readers: direct style, practical sense and the convincing power of the facts. This book deals with the problem of pain from a Christian point of view: how it can be understood. The chapters deal with omnipotence and divine goodness, human evil, the fall of man, human pain, animal pain, hell and heaven. C.S. Lewis was born in Ireland in 1898, educated at Malvern College for a year, and then privately. He was Tutor at Magdalen College and Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. As a teacher he became very popular, and exerted a profound influence on his students. An atheist in his youth, he described his conversion to Christianity in his work Captivated by Joy, and defined it as an experience that transformed his life and his work. Gifted with exceptional intelligence and a sharp and lucid wit, he became one of the most notable writers of our time. He cultivated with equal mastery the essay, the novel and children's literature. Letters from the devil to his nephew, While we have no face, The devil proposes a toast, The four loves, Mero

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