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About the Book: Making Sense Out of Suffering by Peter Kreeft

It's been in my shelves collecting dust for awhile. Just started reading it recently. When I initially picked it up from our church's rummage sale few years ago, I thought it's one of those same old, common self-improvement books how to comfort yourself or others who are suffering, but I was quite surprised. A mix bag of philosophy, theology, dialogue, etc. that reminds and widens one's perspective of the purpose and meaning of suffering in Peter Kree ft's (author of Jesus Shock) usual straight-forward, no non-sense style of writing & wisdom. Some quotes from the book: “Atheism robs death of meaning. And if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? For death is the end of life here” “Haven’t you forgotten the first and most important lesson in all of philosophy, the lesson taught to all of us by Socrates, the father of philosophy? That you are wise only when you are humble, that the very first bit of wisdom and t...