Task Sheet 10. Why do bad things happen to good people?

[Pages:1]Task Sheet 10. Why do bad things happen to good people?

Suggested Task

Read some extracts from Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. New Edition. (London: Pan, 2002). Reflect on the questions about evil and suffering posed by Kushner. How do you respond to them?

Aim

To understand how your tandem partner responds to the experience of suffering and evil.

To explore the resources available within your own religious tradition to engage with the experience of suffering and evil.

Objectives

On your own and with your partner define your objectives for this tandem exercise. What do you want to learn?

Consider asking yourself

What resources are available within your tradition to understand the existence of evil in the world? Can you think of a real life example of suffering and/or evil? How do your beliefs help you to understand this situation? How does the existence of evil affect your behaviour and religious practices? What role does the problem of evil play in the formation of your religion's doctrines and beliefs?

Consider asking your tandem partner

You may ask all or none of the suggestions above plus: What is evil? How do you deal with evil? What do you do about it?

Things to reflect What are our similarities? Why?

on together

Where do we differ? Why?

Funded by the University of Sheffield and the HE Academy Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies.

? The University of Sheffield, 2009.

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