When Bad Things Happen to Good People

by Kushner, Harold S.

• ISBN13: 9780380670338
• ISBN10: 038067033X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-12-01
• Publisher: Avon Books

Summary

"I knew that one day I would write this book. I would write it out of my own need to put into words some of the most important things I have come to believe and know. And I would write it to help other people who might one day find themselves in a similar predicament. I would write it for an those people who wanted to go on believing, but whose anger at God made it hard for them to hold on to their faith and be comforted by religion. And I would write it for all those people whose love of God and devotion to Him led them to blame themselves for their suffering and persuade themselves that they deserved it."--Harold S. Kushner

Author Biography

Harold S. Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition	p. ix
Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book	p. 3
Why Do the Righteous Suffer?	p. 10
The Story of a Man Named Job	p. 43
Sometimes There Is No Reason	p. 63
No Exceptions for Nice People	p. 76
God Leaves Us Room to Be Human	p. 97
God Helps Those Who Stop Hurting Themselves	p. 117
God Can't Do Everything, But He Can Do Some Important Things	p. 152
What Good, Then, Is Religion?	p. 177
Acknowledgments	p. 201
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