Which C.S. Lewis book examines the problem of human suffering in Christian apologetics?

The Problem of Pain examines human suffering in C.S. Lewis’s Christian apologetics.

Lewis published The Problem of Pain in 1940. The book asks how suffering, pain, and evil can exist in a world created by an all-powerful and loving God. Lewis addresses topics including divine omnipotence, human freedom, the Fall, animal suffering, and the possibility of hell.

It belongs to Lewis’s nonfiction apologetic works, which present arguments for Christian belief to a broad readership. The book is analytical and theological rather than autobiographical. It should not be confused with A Grief Observed, which is a much more personal response to bereavement.

Readers sometimes assume that The Problem of Pain explains Lewis’s own later grief. In fact, it was published years before Joy Davidman’s illness and death. Its subject is the philosophical and theological problem of suffering in general.