Affliction: A Compassionate Christian Look at Understanding the Reality of Pain and Suffering in Our Lives

Fleming H. Revell Company, January 1978. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author. No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . . . To answer the troubling question, ''Why?'' Edith stresses God's empathy and applies Job and other Scripture in a personal, caring approach to physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering. . . . . . . . . Edith Rachel Merritt Schaeffer (nee Seville) (November 3, 1914 - March 30, 2013) was a Christian author and co-founder of L'Abri, a Christian organization which hosts guests. She was the wife of Francis Schaeffer, and the mother of Frank Schaeffer and three other children. Schaeffer wrote numerous books, both before and after the death of her husband. Her book Affliction (1978) explores human suffering in a Christian context. It won a Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) in 1979. Her What is a Family? (1975) compared the extended family to a mobile. Her autobiographical The Tapestry: the Life and Times of Francis and Edith Schaeffer (1981) won the ECPA award in 1982. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.