#DIOGENES ALLEN FREE#

#DIOGENES ALLEN FREE#

The nature of a fallen world with free will necessarily implies suffering. But God does not guarantee us happiness in this life-quite the contrary. To be fair, that may be because I have suffered very little in my life (as they say, though, past performance is no guarantee of future results). Very many people struggle with theodicy-in essence, the theological question why God, if He is both all-good and all-powerful, permits suffering. Either way, the book is substantively excellent, if not an easy read. Thus, it might be more accurate if the bookвЂ™s subtitle, вЂњAn Introduction to the Christian Faith,вЂќ were the title, and the actual title the subtitle. The book itself, however, is a sophisticated philosophical overview of Christianity in which troubles, as such, play little part. The author, the late Diogenes Allen, did not intend to convert in this work, rather he вЂњintended to increase a critical but pious personвЂ™s understanding of the Christian religion.вЂќ True, the spur for his writing the book was receiving a letter from a man troubled by the particular problem of theodicy. ThatвЂ™s not precisely true this is not a work of apologetics. From its title, Theology for a Troubled Believer seems directed at people having a crisis of faith.

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