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End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain Paperback - 2009
by Scott Cairns
Drawing upon personal experience and a compelling range of early Christian traditions and the writings of poets, prophets, and wise men and women, Cairns offers the fruit of his pondering of suffering and the supernatural use for it.
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- Title End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain
- Author Scott Cairns
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Paraclete Press (MA), Orleans, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-11-01
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781557255631 / 1557255636
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 6.7 x 4.5 x 0.7 in (17.02 x 11.43 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Catholic
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Catholic
- Theometrics: Mainline
- Library of Congress subjects Suffering - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009018728
- Dewey Decimal Code 231.8
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Citations
- Christian Century, 01/12/2010, Page 43
- Christianity Today, 02/01/2010, Page 62
- Library Journal, 10/01/2009, Page 66
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/02/2009, Page 29
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Paraclete Press, November 2009. Paper Back. New. There is much more to this little coat-pocket sized book than meets the eye. To borrow from C.S. Lewis 'the further in you go, the larger it gets.' What begins as an apparently modest, almost shy attempt to sketch an outline of the 'end' (purpose, not cessation) of suffering, proves eventually a convincing portrayal of what it means to be human-sinful and being saved. Our refusal of God's unceasing invitation to communion inevitably impairs and distorts our connection with one another, and with all creation. We become agents of an insidious infection, complicit in a large and ancient epidemic. The healing of this wounded cosmos begins with the 'repair of the person,' and here Cairns avails himself of the rich vocabulary of the ancient Christian ascetical tradition to describe how this can occur. We already see a glimpse of the 'end' of suffering, from which much else is indicated: denial of self, the transformation…
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