{"id":9068,"date":"2018-09-02T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=9068"},"modified":"2018-08-28T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T18:29:40","slug":"walking-with-god-through-pain-and-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=9068","title":{"rendered":"Walking with God through Pain and Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book: Keller, Timothy. Walking with God through Pain and Suffering. Penguin Books, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Point: Christianity has the unique answer to meaningful suffering because Christianity is about Christ, the suffering yet conquering King.<\/p>\n<p>Path: This book is divided into three parts, Worldview, Theological, and Practical. All are well articulated and helpful.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sources: Keller\u2019s standard bibliography ranging from contemporary theologians and philosophers to ancient sources.<\/p>\n<p>Agreement: This is the first book I would hand to someone dealing with, or walking alongside someone in the midst of suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Personal App: Suffering is an incredible opportunity to see my inadequacy and God\u2019s sufficiency.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;God allows evil just enough space so it will defeat itself.&#8221; (Keller)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book: Keller, Timothy. Walking with God through Pain and Suffering. Penguin Books, 2013. Point: Christianity has the unique answer to meaningful suffering because Christianity is about Christ, the suffering yet conquering King. Path: This book is divided into three parts, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=9068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-shelf-book"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-2mg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9069,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions\/9069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}