This course examines the problem of God and evil through three correlative means – Biblical theology, philosophy, and literary art – and in the process we address issues such as…

• What are the sources of suffering?
• Is the problem of God and evil evidence for atheism?
• The nature of good and evil.
• The irony of human freedom.
• What about natural disasters that kill innocent people?
• Suffering in the Bible.
• Why does God allow evil and suffering?
• Why didn’t God create a perfect world without sin and suffering?
• Suffering as a pathway to grace and redemption.

Click here for the class syllabus and course overview.

Philip Yancey, Where Is God When It Hurts? Anniversary Edition (Zondervan, 2002)
C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (HarperSanFrancisco, 1961)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Ballantine Books, 1

Instructor:
Dr. Jefrey Breshears

Dates and Time:
Wednesdays, Aug 18 – Nov 3,
7:00 – 8:30 PM

Registration:
$60 or $100 per couple

Location:
Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, Room 108
(Note: This course is available in-person and/or via Zoom.)

Note on the Instructor:  Dr. Jefrey Breshears is an author, historian, a former university
professor, and the founder and president of The Areopagus, a Christian education ministry in the
Atlanta area.