Phil C. Zylla is Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where he teaches on pastoral care and the theology of suffering. He has served several churches as a senior pastor and is the author of Virtue as Consent to Being. He lives in Ontario.

"A beautifully conceived and thoughtfully written book. Zylla's theological reflections emerge from a deep personal wrestling with the devastating realities of human suffering." --Donald Capps, Emeritus Professor of Pastoral Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary

• Part IIntroduction: The Roots of Sorrow1. Common Explanations of Suffering2. Components of a Theology of SufferingPart II3. From Silence to Lament4. From Indifference to Compassion5. From Loneliness to CommunityPart III6. The Suffering of Creation7. The Subtle Persistence of HopeConclusion: Ministry with the AfflictedBibliographyIndex