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Suffering
How do we deal with it?Slide2
Nelson Mandela
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our
common suffering
into hope for the future.”Slide3
Let’s talk about it
What kind of suffering do I expect to encounter in my professional work and how do I plan to deal with it?
What kind of pain & suffering is worse: physical or emotional? Why? Slide4
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Anthropologist Richard Shweder
“Human beings apparently want to be edified by their miseries.”Slide6
Sociologist Peter Berger
Every culture has provided an “explanation of human events that bestows meaning upon the experiences of suffering and evil.”Slide7
The Gift of Pain
by Dr Paul Brand & Philip Yancey
“In the United
States
I encountered a society that seeks to avoid pain at all costs. Patients lived at a greater comfort level than any I had previously treated, but they seemed far less equipped to handle suffering and far more traumatized by it.”Slide8
Moralistic
Cause
Wrongdoing
Response
Do good
Resolution
Eternal
BlissSlide9
Self-transcendent
Cause
Illusion
Response
Detachment
Resolution
EnlightenmentSlide10
Fatalistic
Cause
Destiny
Response
Endurance
Resolution
Glory and HonorSlide11
Dualistic
Cause
Cosmic conflict
Response
Purified faithfulness
Resolution
Triumph of the
lightSlide12
Secular
Cause
Accident
Response
Technique
Resolution
Better societySlide13
River Out of Eden:
A Darwinian View of Life
by Richard Dawkins
“The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”Slide14
Walking with God through Pain & Suffering
by Tim Keller
“If the meaning of life is individual freedom and happiness, then suffering is of no possible ‘use.’ In this worldview, the only thing to do with suffering is to avoid it at all costs, or, if it is unavoidable, manage and minimize the emotions of pain and discomfort as much as possible.”Slide15
Walking with God through Pain & Suffering
by Tim Keller
“Our modern culture does not believe in unseen spiritual forces. Suffering always has a material cause and therefore it can in theory be
‘fixed
’.”Slide16
Boston Review (interview)
Larissa
MacFarquhar
For people of faith, “God is in control, and God’s love will see the world through. Whereas for secular people, it’s all up to us. We’re
alone
here. That’s why I think that, for secular people, there can be an additional layer of urgency and despair.”Slide17
Bible
For
it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
Hebrews 2:10Slide18
Therefore he (Jesus)
had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
For
because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Hebrews 2:17-18Slide19
For
we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Let
us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:15-16Slide20
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