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Henry Nelson Wieman and Daniel Day Williams are among those who have asked the right question about suffering. Seeing that suffering is usually destructive but sometimes creative, they asked what makes the difference. What can we do to redeem from suffering whatever good can be achieved?
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Robert McAfee Brown, ‘Starting Over: New Beginning Points for Theology’, The Christian Century, vol. XCVII, no. 18 (14 May, 1980) p. 546.
Henry Nelson Wieman, The Source of Human Good, (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976, first published 1945) pp. 87–9.
An especially profound exploration of this view of the ambiguity of even God’s decisions is Bernard Lee’s strikingly honest article, ‘The Helplessness of God’, Encounter, vol. 38, no. 4 (Autumn 1977) 325–36.
Daniel Day Williams, ‘Suffering and Being in Empirical Theology’, in Bernard Meland (ed.), The Future of Empirical Theology, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979) see pp. 180–1.
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Mesle, C.R. (1991). The Smallpox Fallacy: Struggling with Suffering and Meaning. In: John Hick’s Theodicy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21435-8_1
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