God Medicine and Suffering

<DIV>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.</DIV>