When Bad Things Happen to Good People 20th Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author

Name: When Bad Things Happen to Good People 20th Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author
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ISBN: 9780805241938

ISBN-10: 0805241930

ISBN-13: 9780805241938

Edition: 20th 2001 (Anniversary)

Authors: Harold S. Kushner

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As a young theology student, Harold Kushner puzzled over the Book of Job. As a small-town rabbi he counseled other people through pain and grief. But not until he learned that his three-year-old son, Aaron, would die in his early teens of a rare disease did he confront one of life's most difficult questions: Where do we find the resources to cope when tragedy strikes? "I knew that one day I would write this book," says Rabbi Kushner. "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 am fundamentally a religious man…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/4/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition


Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book



Why Do the Righteous Suffer?



The Story of a Man Named Job



Sometimes There Is No Reason



No Exceptions for Nice People



God Leaves Us Room to Be Human



God Helps Those Who Stop Hurting Themselves



God Can't Do Everything, But He Can Do Some Important Things



What Good, Then, Is Religion?


Acknowledgments