Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil? E-Book

Collin Hansen

• Herausgeber: Crossway
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: TGC Hard Questions
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 49

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

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 

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“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

Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil?

TGC Hard Questions

Jared Kennedy, Series Editor

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Does God Care about Gender Identity?, Samuel D. Ferguson

Is Christianity Good for the World?, Sharon James

What Does Depression Mean for My Faith?, Kathryn Butler, MD

Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil?, Collin Hansen

Why Do We Feel Lonely at Church?, Jeremy Linneman

Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil?

Collin Hansen

Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil?

© 2025 by Collin Hansen

Published by Crossway1300 Crescent StreetWheaton, Illinois 60187

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First printing 2025

Printed in the United States of America

Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.

Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-9800-5 ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-9802-9 PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-9801-2

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hansen, Collin, 1981– author

Title: Where is God in a world with so much evil? / Collin Hansen.

Description: Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway, 2025. | Series: TGC hard questions | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2024005904 (print) | LCCN 2024005905 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433598005 trade paperback | ISBN 9781433598029 epub | ISBN 9781433598012 pdf

Subjects: LCSH: Justice—Religious aspects—Christianity

Classification: LCC BS680.J8 H36 2025 (print) | LCC BS680.J8 (ebook) | DDC 261.8—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024005904

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024005905

Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

2024-11-12 08:43:59 AM

Contents

Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil?

Notes

Recommended Resources

Scripture Index

When you walk through Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, you’re emotionally exhausted by the end. The pain. The suffering. The horror of six million Jews murdered, less than a century ago. Children. Grandmothers. Young. Old. Pregnant. Barren. Gassed and cremated with modern efficiency. In Yad Vashem, you see their faces. You learn their stories. The names. The memories. It breaks your heart.

Shortly before you leave, you see a large photo from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Dated April 16, 1945, it shows inmates sleeping three to a bed, with bunks stacked four high. The bodies are nothing more than skin stretched over skeletons.

Tucked away in the second row of bunks, seventh from the left, is a sixteen-year-old face. I didn’t recognize it in the picture, but the face would become famous around the world. It’s the face of Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. His book Night recounts his experience of the Shoah, or catastrophe.

The Holocaust.

Night