God's Problem

How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer

By Bart D. Ehrman
(HarperOne, Paperback, 9780061173929, 304pp.)

Publication Date: March 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Paperback

Categories: Christian Life - Death, Grief, Bereavement, Christian Theology - General, Philosophy

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Bart D. Ehrman is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestselling Misquoting Jesus and God's Problem. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is a leading authority on the Bible and the life of Jesus. He has been featured in Time and has appeared on Dateline NBC, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, the History Channel, major NPR shows, and other top media outlets. He lives in Durham, N.C.

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“[An] entrapped invocation of a God who is not believed in, but is nonetheless despised, is what gives the book a rough power. …[Ehrman] is a lucid expositor…”
-The New Yorker

“Ehrman’s clarity, simplicity, and congeniality help make this a superb introduction to its subject.”
-Booklist

“Ehrman, a prolific and popular author, has put his journey into words in a new book “God’s Problem. ...Ehrman actually ends “God’s Problem” on an upbeat note, a kind of call to arms for people to be good--to themselves and to others...”
-San Diego Tribune