June 23: The Problem of Pain: Chapter 2

On Sunday, June 23, we'll continue our discussion of The Problem of Pain. We will discuss Chapter 2: "Divine Omnipotence." We will likely stay with this Lewis book for a few months. The Problem of Pain was published in 1940, after Out of the Silent Planet and before The Screwtape Letters (see https://joelheck.com/chronologically-lewis/ ).

Michael Ward explains the question addressed by The Problem of Pain and the book's main thesis in this 4-minute Hillsdale College video.

Arend Smilde provides his notes on quotations and allusions in The Problem of Pain on his Lewisiana.nl site.

The Problem of Pain has ten chapters:

Preface

Ch 1: Introductory

Ch 2: Divine Omnipotence

Ch 3: Divine Goodness

Ch 4: Human Wickedness

Ch 5: The Fall of Man

Ch 6: Human Pain

Ch 7: Human Pain, continued

Ch 8: Hell

Ch 9: Animal Pain

Ch 10: Heaven

Appendix

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