COVID-19 and Pain
Can We Still Believe in God?
- Apologetics
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the cause of much pain. In light of this, can Christians still believe in God? And if they do, can they still believe that he is all-good, all-powerful, and all-knowing? In this book, Peter Harris looks at these difficult questions and answers yes! After establishing that COVID-19 is not God's judgment and without denigrating other worldviews, Harris demonstrates that Christianity has a moral philosophy which has led historically to robust and compassionate responses to pandemics, a response that is seen in Christian behavior today. Hospitals using modern science are on the front line in the battle with COVID-19. According to Harris, history demonstrates that it was Christians who first established hospitals and whose worldview gave rise to modern science in the first place. Turning to philosophy, Harris presents reasons to believe that God is congruent with pain with the argument from free will as his focus. Finally, Harris considers the pandemic from a pastoral argument, analyzing the pain of grief and explaining God's rescue package from a world of pain. If you want some serious reflection on COVID-19, this is a book for you.
Endorsements (2)
“This book bears the hallmarks of Dr. Harris’s unflinching yet sensitive defense of the Christian worldview in our own times. Ever alert to contemporary events, he studies the painful impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a Christian vantage point that is reasonable, measured, and aware of other beliefs and perspectives. This book will be essential reading for anyone beginning to assess the impact of COVID-19 on human communities.”
“In a piece of pithy and succinct writing, Harris has produced a measured, biblically grounded, philosophically secure, logical, and humble Christian response to those for whom COVID-19 leads to doubt God. Peter carefully considers the anti-Christian critiques arising from the pandemic and produces an answer grounded in Christian thinking across the ages that both stimulates the mind and warms the heart by reminding us of the God who cares so much he became human to save us.”
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