Review of ‘What Does the Bible Say About Suffering?’ by Brian Han Gregg


Brian Han Gregg, What Does the Bible Say About Suffering? (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016). “Suffering is one of the great universals of human life,” Brian Han Gregg writes in What Does the Bible Say About Suffering? For the Christian, the experience of suffering poses a difficult theological question: “Why has my God, who is both wholly good and completely powerful, allowed this to unfold?” To answer that question, Gregg turns to the Bible and outlines its response. Or perhaps I should say responses (plural), for Gregg argues that “there is no single way forward,” as far as the … Continue reading Review of ‘What Does the Bible Say About Suffering?’ by Brian Han Gregg