{"product_id":"end-of-suffering-finding-purpose-in-pain-9781557255631","title":"End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering, but a supernatural use for it.\" -Simone Weil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like most people I, too, have been blindsided by personal grief now and again over the years. And I have an increasingly keen sense that, wherever I am, someone nearby is suffering now. 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.\" -\u003ci\u003efrom the book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs 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. Clear-eyed and unsparingly honest, this new addition to the literature of suffering is reminiscent of \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paraclete Press (MA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781557255631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.70h x 4.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Christianity Today Book Award - Award of Merit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2009 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/02\/2009 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/12\/2010 pg. 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2010 pg. 62\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scott Cairns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38024155955381,"sku":"9781557255631","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e875e085-c3fd-4c07-b5af-7cdaf9ad1731.jpg?v=1609186614","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/end-of-suffering-finding-purpose-in-pain-9781557255631","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}