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	C.S. Lewis: The Problem of Pain
		The existence of suffering in a world created by a good and almighty God —; "the problem of pain" — is a fundamental theological dilemma and perhaps the most serious objection to the Christian religion.
		Yet, the problem is that the perception of man's sinful condition, and hence of a real need for alteration — a thing obvious even to ancient pagans — has largely disappeared from the modern horizon, rendering the Christian call to repentance and conversion unintelligible.
		We have seen that in a stable and meaningful universe a possibility of pain is inherent; and in a universe of creatures, inclined, by virtue of their fallen nature, to move away from God, evil becomes, so to speak, endemic.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/apologetics/ap0032.html (3376 words)

	The Problem of Pain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Problem of Pain is a 1940 book by C.
		The book is a theodicy, an attempt by one Christian layman to reconcile orthodox Christian belief in a loving and omnipotent God with the fact that people suffer, and is not intended to provide comfort to those actually suffering.
		Some have felt that it is useful to read it together with A Grief Observed, Lewis' reflections on his own experience of severe emotional pain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Problem_of_Pain (174 words)

	IBD & The Problem of Pain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Visceral pain or the pain of the deep organs, is characterised by being poorly localised, and often referred (ie.
		Probably the most challenging aspects of the pain associated with IBD is the chronicity of the condition which can lead to years of pain episodes which are also accompanied by a series of problems which have collectively been called the chronic pain syndrome.
		This vicious cycle of pain and suffering is characterised by reduced activity resulting in physical deterioration, unhelpful thought processes resulting in feelings of depression and irritability, side effects from prolonged use of drugs, and in some cases, loss of employment and associated financial and family stresses.
	www.acca.net.au /articles/SPECIAL.asp (2258 words)

	Molecular insights into the problem of pain - EFIC 2000, Nice, France
		In addition to the rapid advances in understanding the mechanisms by which pain is transmitted from peripheral tissues to the central nervous system, these advances have also provided novel targets for treating pathological chronic pain that is now recognized as a disease entity in its own right.
		Pain is usually thought to be "acute" or "chronic" depending on the duration of the pain condition and "neuropathic" when pain derives from direct damage to the nervous system.
		I will highlight a recent and remarkable success in the control of bone cancer pain in a mouse model using a decoy receptor, osteoprotegcrin which halts the excessive tumour-induced bone destruction that is involved in the generation of bone cancer pain (Honore et al, 2000).
	www.painstudy.ru /pe3/molecular.htm (913 words)

	Focus On The Faulty: Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Atheists, then, have a “problem of pain”: their worldview requires them to deny their moral knowledge that some things are just plain evil.
		The problem of relating these three propositions (God is all-powerful, God is all-good, and pain, suffering, and evil exist) is known in philosophy by the question-begging designation “the inconsistent triad.” Actually, though, this is in a sense the easiest version of the problem to resolve.
		Although we cannot completely understand all of the many aspects to the problem of pain and evil, we can understand enough to be part of the solution rather than merely part of the problem (which, as sinners, we all are).
	www.xmark.com /focus/Pages/perspectives_on_pain.html (2380 words)

	The problem with pain - August 1, 2001
		Most of the pain management strategies in human medicine are derived from physiologic models of dogs, cats, and rats, according to Dr. Tranquilli.
		Pain is problematic from a clinical perspective because it is personal.
		The catalyst cited frequently for the evolution of pain management in companion animal medicine was a study published in 1993 by researchers at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
	www.avma.org /onlnews/javma/aug01/s080101b.asp (1508 words)

	American Pain Society
		With effective analgesia, the patient's pain threshold occurred at a stimulus level above the baseline; the investigator reactivated the stimulus and charted the threshold at set time intervals until the baseline was again reached to determine the duration of analgesic effect.
		In his view, the subjects' tranquility and interest, although quite unlike the anxiety and suffering of pain patients, constituted an emotional state that affected their perception of pain and indicated that the reaction component was still present.
		With his statement that pain is "different for each individual," he asserted the clinical claim that only the physician who deals directly with the individual patient can learn to understand the subjective phenomenon of pain.
	www.ampainsoc.org /pub/bulletin/jan99/history.htm (1945 words)

	The Problem of Pain
		The problem of pain has been referred to as the Achilles' heel of Christianity.
		An assumption that lies underneath the problem of pain, is that humans are entitled to question God.
		Pain and suffering strengthens our character (I Peter 1:6-7) and enables us to more fully appreciate the mercy of God.
	bevets.com /pain.htm (774 words)

	No Pain for Children - The dimension of the problem of pain in children (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pain is a great problem for children and for their parents, too.
		Pain caused by the pathology can be very strong and sometimes it remains until the disease itself is treated and/or cured.
		Pain caused by invasive procedures and by collateral effects of the treatment is a strong and repetitive kind of pain, sometimes more important and more frightening than the disease itself.
	www.nopainforchildren.org /dimension.htm (152 words)

	The Problem of Pain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Every religion must incorporate an answer to this problem, and at first glance this problem causes the end of Christianity, because central to Christianity is a God of limitless love.
		Because the problem of pain is an emotional one, I will discuss the emotional argument first.
		Explain to me how this whole pain thing is beneficial when a child, or other innocent, is the one doing the suffering and dying.
	people.ucsc.edu /~mgrivich/TheProblemofPain.htm (1199 words)

	Pain and Chemical Dependency: The Problem of Pain
		Nausea and abdominal pain are poor predictors of serious GI toxicity and most patients who develop ulcers actually have no symptoms at all before the ulcer appears.
		Opioids are typically first-line if the pain is severe and is expected to be short-lived, like post-surgical pain, and if the pain is associated with a progressive incurable illness.
		In other types of chronic pain, a decision to try an opioid should be based on a careful evaluation by the clinician.
	www.stoppain.org /pcd/content/problem/opioids.asp (2900 words)

	The Problem of Pain by Stephanie Tolan
		Pain isn’t a subject that we often address directly, and that may be one reason why we don’t cope with it very well.
		They may genuinely not feel pain, or they may feel it but deny it or refuse to focus their attention on it, or they may feel it strongly but hide the feeling from others.
		All religious traditions address the issue of pain in one way or another and a family’s religion or spiritual heritage is likely to have important effects on their understanding of pain’s meaning.
	www.seishindo.org /articles/problem_of_pain.html (3937 words)

	Pain and Chemical Dependency: The Problem of Pain
		Pain education programs are considered to play an important role in the treatment of both chronic pain (Glajchen, 2001) and cancer pain (Thomas, 2000).
		CBT has proven to be effective in reducing pain and disability when it is used as part of a therapeutic strategy for chronic pain.
		A 1997 review of the literature on hypnosis in pain control, which evaluated all controlled scientific studies comparing hypnosis to other psychological interventions for pain, showed hypnosis to be equally or more effective in reducing suffering and possibly even reducing pain sensation (Holyroid, 1996).
	www.stoppain.org /pcd/content/problem/psychoeducational.asp (861 words)

	The Problem of Pain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All religious traditions address the issue of pain in one way or another and a family’s religious traditions or spiritual awareness is likely to have important effects on their understanding of pain’s meaning.
		Some pain, of course, does not simply pass with time – the loss of a loved one, for instance, may remain with us a lifetime, returning from time to time with an intensity that surprises us.
		Parents who model accepting and admitting our pain, comforting ourselves, allowing it to move through, and then getting on with our lives, give children the confidence to contend with their pain and leave it behind rather than identifying with it and coming to think of themselves as requiring constant attention because of it.
	talentdevelop.com /TPOP.html (4485 words)

	Pain and Numbers II -- The Implications -- (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Specifically, we should acknowledge that the Problem of Pain is no greater than the application of its question to one individual.
		In terms of actual pain being experienced, then, pain z suffered by even one individual represents the maximal 'pain experience.' If we can understand how a good and omnipotent G-d can allow one person to suffer pain z, we have, in fact, solved the age-old Problem of Pain.
		Rather, the Problem of Pain is presented as it manifests itself in relation to the suffering of one individual - Job.
	yuweb.addr.com /v66i5/columns/junto.shtml (1690 words)

	Selected Writings::Only Believers Experience the Problem of Pain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It may be well that we remind ourselves that pain presents no problem to any man except to the man who believes in God.
		The whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain, and the proportion of our nearness to God is the proportion of our sense of this problem of pain, for it is the love of God shed abroad in the heart that renders the heart keen and sensitive to the world's agony.
		The heart of man, taught by the Divine love, questions the Divine love, until, presently, the heart of the man discovers that the very agony he feels which makes him question is the result of the presence in his soul of the God of love, and, indeed, it is an expression of God's own agony.
	www.backtothebible.org /devotions/devotion.php/giant/102 (422 words)

	Pain Relief
		Spearmint Oil is generally used in pain relief for its anti-inflammatory and anti-spasmodic properties, and in skin care, it is used as an anti-bacterial and anti-fungal.
		When combined with eucalyptus oil, the two are well-known for their positive efficacy to treat headaches and relieve pains.
		Eucalyptus Oil is possibly the most highly effective oil for pain relief because it stimulates the blood flow which directs more healthy oxygen to the brain and to the point of application.
	www.reliefmd.com (1020 words)

	The Problem Of Pain
		Perhaps The Problem of Pain should then have been revised: our understanding of suffering is certainly tinged with different colourings when we suffer deeply ourselves.
		In The Problem of Pain C.S.Lewis examines the causes of pain:
		Although pain is never palatable, writes C.S.Lewis in The Problem of Pain, we are in some senses made 'perfect through suffering'.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/1879.htm (1260 words)

	Spinal Cord Injuries Australia \| When pain is the problem (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Experiencing pain in a part of the body that is unable to sense much else seems one of the cruelest ironies of having a spinal cord injury (SCI).
		With her supervisors A/Prof Michael Nicholas and Dr James Middleton and other colleagues in the University of Sydney Pain Management and Research Centre and spinal services at Royal North Shore Hospital and Royal Rehabilitation Centre, Sydney, we are studying impact of this pain, and its management.
		Dr Siddall and colleagues are also planning to build on their existing work to chart the course of such problems and in particular to examine the relationship between factors soon after injury and later pain, disability and distress.
	www.scia.org.au /news/when_pain_is_the_problem (697 words)

	The Thornleys' Home Pages
		They often claimed that pain was "stimulation of the D-fibers" (whatever a D-fiber is, presumably some specific sort of nerve).
		We can suffer pain, and while this pain may have active D-fibers as a physical expression, pain as a concept is independent of the details of neural anatomy.
		The fact is that the physical aspects of pain and sight are both internal to the body, and therefore distinguishing between senses and feelings is purely arbitrary.
	www.visi.com /~thornley/david/philosophy/pain.html (887 words)

	Why Pain and Suffering?
		Not only have we had to handle the problem, but also to deal with why God allows these tragedies to happen and why this does not invalidate the Christian belief system.
		What we will do on this website is share some understandings we have come to while dealing with these personal problems and provide some personal accounts by ourselves and others as to how all of this has worked out in our own lives.
		The point we need to make right now is that denying the existence of God does not remove the pain and suffering we experience and does nothing to make problems in life any easier.
	www.whypain.org (1049 words)

	The Problem of Pain
		There was nothing in the universe but her and me, the rope, my tired arms, her pain, the deep shuddering blows she braced herself against the wall to absorb, my sweat, her guttural moans and yelps, my heavy breathing.
		Catholics especially love to look at pain as an offering to Jesus, who suffered such tortures for them; they find it easy, at least in the abstract, to imagine that horrendous pain and hardship is being given to them for some loving purpose, for their own good, even though they don’t understand it.
		Sometimes pain is a sacrifice we give someone, not only because we’ve been promised some tangible reward, but because we know the sacrifice itself is pleasing.
	www.topdogpress.com /problem_of_pain.htm (5408 words)

	C. S. Lewis’ Personal Reckoning with the Problem of Pain
		In The Problem of Pain, Lewis would have taken a very logical, although not unsympathetic, approach to that type of situation, saying that we as humans have the power to choose what our actions will be.
		It is the purpose of this paper to examine the results of Lewis' personal reckoning with the problem of pain, and to discuss his image of God which remains consistent throughout all his experiences as a Christian.
		When Lewis wrote The Problem of Pain in 1940, he had encountered such tragedies as the death of his mother, serving in World War One, and the death of his father, respectively.
	www.montreat.edu /dking/lewis/BrendaEriksonLewispaper.htm (2737 words)

	The Problem of Evil
		The problem of evil is the most serious problem in the world.
		Although evil is a serious problem for thought (for it seems to disprove the existence of God), it is even more of a problem in life (for it is the real exclusion of God).
		There, the greatest evil that ever happened, both the greatest spiritual evil and the greatest physical evil, both the greatest sin (deicide) and the greatest suffering (perfect love hated and crucified), is revealed as his wise and loving plan to bring about the greatest good, the salvation of the world from sin and suffering eternally.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/apologetics/ap0194.html (1844 words)

	the problem of pain and evil, an explanation of pain and suffering
		the problem of pain and evil, an explanation of pain and suffering
		Pain is gods megaphone to rouse a deaf dead world
		Problems are confirmation that we are being prepared for heaven.
	www.christianadvice.net /the_problem_of_pain.htm (264 words)

	TIME.com: The Problem of Pain -- Jul 30, 1956 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dictionaries are hopeless.* The late Sir Charles Sherrington, who collected no fewer than 22 honorary doctorates for his brilliant researches in physiology, called pain "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." That may be fine for another physiologist, but it is no help to a man with a nail through his foot.
		Although pain is what drives most patients to a doctor, it is the symptom to which, all too often, doctors pay least attention.
		The conclusion: the differences between races and cultures must lie in the "psychical adjunct" part of Sherrington's definition—in the reaction to pain, not in the pain as such.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,867039,00.html (775 words)

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