God and Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the CrossProfessor Hall has written a major work on an agonizing subject, at once brilliant, comprehensive, and thought provoking. In contrast to many writers who gloss over one or the other, Dr. Hall is true both to the reality of suffering and to the affirmation that God creates, sustains, and redeems. Creative is his view that certain aspects of what we call suffering loneliness, experience of limits, temptation, anxiety are necessary parts of God's good