Caroline Dennis

God, Pandemics, and the Holocaust

Theology

“Dr. Cliff Cain does not fear to tread into difficult waters. Here, he gathers from across the centuries, all the best (and worst) answers to the persistent question, ‘How can there be God, whom we understand to be both good and omnipotent, and still evil and suffering persist?,’ and offers them to his readers through the backdrop of three global pandemics—the Bubonic Plague, the Spanish Flu, and COVID-19—and the Holocaust. By the end, this modern-day theologian has guided his reader into new and freeing possibilities, and perhaps a new relationship with both God and the challenges of our human existence.”