Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England
by
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Luther’s 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows his creations to suffer remains one of the central issues of religious thought. In order to chart the processes by which religious discourse relating to pain and suffering became marginalized...