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Meaning in Human Suffering

₹19,531.68 ₹11,719.01
  • Instructor: Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani
  • Duration: 8 weeks
  • Format: Live Google Meet seminars, guided readings, discussion, interactive WhatsApp group with attendees and Course instructor
  • Language: English
  • Start: Mid-September 2026
  • Discount: 20% early-bird registration (included)

Course Description. This course examines human suffering as both a philosophical challenge to theistic belief and an existential problem that requires discernment and an ethical response. Centering on Rumi’s practical-phenomenological theodicy and John Hick’s soul-making theodicy, the course explores divine Goodness, human freedom, moral and spiritual growth, epistemic distance, and eschatological hope. Through close reading, comparison, and critical discussion, the course evaluates whether rational explanation and lived transformation can be integrated without romanticizing suffering, neglecting injustice, or dismissing the enduring problem of excessive and apparently pointless evil.

The course will be taught primarily through critical reading of the book A Search for Meaning in Human Suffering: Rumi and John Hick in Dialogue by Rasoul Rahbari-Ghazani.