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

Zusatztext “Whether religious or not! this book will speak because it touches–profoundly! but simply–on questions no parent and no person can avoid.” —Harvey Cox! Harvard Divinity School “ When Bad Things Happen to Good People offers a moving and humane approach to understanding life’s windstorms.” —Elisabeth KŸbler-Ross “A touching! heartwarming book for those of us who must contend with suffering! and that! of course! is all of us.” —Andrew M. Greeley “This is a book all humanity needs. It will help you understand the painful vicissitudes of this life and enable you to stand up to them creatively.”  —Norman Vincent Peale Informationen zum Autor Harold S. Kushner is the author of several bestselling books on coping with life's challenges. He has been honored by the Christophers as one of the fifty people who have made the world a better place. He is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts. Klappentext 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 who has been hurt by life! and I wanted to write a book that could be given to the person who has been hurt by life! and who knows in his heart that if there is justice in the world! he deserved better. . . . If you are such a person! if you want to believe in God's goodness and fairness but find it hard because of the things that have happened to you and to people you care about! and if this book helps you do that! then I will have succeeded in distilling some blessing out of Aaron's pain and tears." Since its original publication in 1981! When Bad Things Happen to Good People has brought solace and hope to millions. In his new preface to this anniversary edition! Rabbi Kushner relates the heartwarming responses he has received over the last two decades from people who have found inspiration and comfort within these pages. One Why Do the Righteous Suffer? There is only one question which really matters: why do bad things happen to good people? All other theological conversation is intellectually diverting; somewhat like doing the crossword puzzle in the Sunday paper and feeling very satisfied when you have made the words fit; but ultimately without the capacity to reach people where they really care. Virtually every meaningful conversation I have ever had with people on the subject of God and religion has either started with this question, or gotten around to it before long. Not only the troubled man or woman who has just come from a discouraging diagnosis at the doctor’s office, but the college student who tells me that he has decided there is no God, or the total stranger who comes up to me at a party just when I am ready to ask the hostess for my coat, and says, “I hear you’re a rabbi; how can you believe that . . .” —they all have one thing in common. They are all troubled by the unfair distribution of suffering in the world. The misfortunes of good people are not only a prob- lem to the people who suffer and to their families. They are a problem to everyone who wants to believe in a just and fair and livable world. They inevitably raise questions about the goodness, the kindness, even the existence of God. I am the rabbi of a congregation of six hundred families, o...

Product details

• Authors: Harold S Kushner, Harold S. Kushner
• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2001
• EAN: 9780805241938
• ISBN: 978-0-8052-4193-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 185 mm x 22 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology