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Does Suffering Have Meaning? A Christian Response to “Man’s Search for Meaning”

March 4, 2026

Suffering is one of the most universal human experiences — and one of the most difficult to understand. Across cultures and centuries, people have asked the same question: Does suffering have meaning? Few modern thinkers addressed that question more powerfully than Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning. A Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist, Frankl argued that even in the most horrific circumstances, human beings can find purpose. His insights resonate deeply with Christian teaching — yet Christianity goes even further, offering not…

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