Received an Award of Merit from Christianity Today, 2009 and chosen as one of the Top 10 Religion Books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly
Is there meaning in our afflictions?
With the thoughtfulness of a pilgrim and the prose of a poet, Scott Cairns takes us on a soul-baring journey through "the puzzlement of our afflictions." Probing ancient Christian wisdom for revelation in his own pain, Cairns challenges us toward a radical revision of the full meaning and breadth of human suffering.
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| Format: | Paperback book |
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| Product code: | PP5631 |
| Dimensions: | 4½" x 7.25" |
| Length: | 144 pages |
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Paraclete Press
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| ISBN: | 9781557255631 |
| 1-2 copies | $14.95 each |
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| 3-9 copies | $14.27 each |
| 10-49 copies | $13.59 each |
| 50-99 copies | $13.25 each |
| 100+ copies | $12.74 each |
Written by Scott Cairns
Praise
Clear-eyed and unsparingly honest, this new addition to the literature of suffering is reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking as well as the works of C. S. Lewis. Cairns points us toward hope in the seasons of our afflictions, because in those trials in our lives that we do not choose but press through—a stillness, a calm, and a hope become available to us.
For that reason, I lately have settled in to mull the matter over, gathering my troubled wits to undertake a difficult essay, more like what we used to call an assay, really—an earnest inquiry. I am thinking of it just now as a study in suffering, by which I hope to find some sense in affliction, hoping—just as I have come to hope about experience in general—to make something of it.
