Franklin in Montreal, “Faith and Science in Response to the Problem of Suffering”
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FREE PUBLIC EVENT: CSCA’s Montreal chapter presents a lecture with Patrick Franklin (Associate Professor of Theology at Tyndale University), CSCA president 2020-2022. Faith and Science in Response to the Problem of Suffering The existence of suffering in the world is one of the major obstacles to belief in God, both intellectually and experientially. Christianity has deep and practical resources to equip and support both those facing suffering and those seeking to alleviate suffering. However, it is crucial to distinguish and discern whether someone’s struggle with suffering is an intellectual or existential one. Intellectual responses to the problem of suffering (‘theodicies’) …