When Bad Things Happen to Good People
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 When Bad Things Happen to Good People |
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| Author(s) | Harold Kushner |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Theism God Religion |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Random House Inc |
| Publication date | 1978 |
| Pages | 176 pp |
| ISBN | 1-4000-3472-8 |
| OCLC Number | 56349149 |
| Followed by | To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking |
When Bad Things Happen to Good People (ISBN 1-4000-3472-8) is a 1978 book by Harold Kushner, a Conservative rabbi. Kushner addresses in the book one of the principal problems of theodicy, the conundrum of why, if the universe was created and is governed by a God who is of a good and loving nature, there is nonetheless so much suffering and pain in it—essentially, the evidential problem of evil.
The book is dedicated to the memory of his young son, Aaron, who died at age 14 in 1977 of the incurable genetic disease progeria. [1] Rabbi Kushner's book was a New York Times bestseller for many months in the "nonfiction" category.
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- New York Times bestseller, "nonfiction"
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"When bad things happen to good people" - 2001 edition with a new preface
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