The Why That Conquers Every How - Paperback

by DeWitt T. Smith (Author), David Kuhnert (Foreword by)

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."-FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

In the Nazi concentration camps, the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl discovered what has steadied millions ever since: a human being can endure almost any how so long as a why remains. Stripped of everything, men still kept an inner freedom no captor could confiscate, a love that outlasted death, and a dignity no cruelty could revoke.

In The Why That Conquers Every How, Dr. Dewitt T. Smith sets those hard-won findings beside two older witnesses: Job, the ancient sufferer who lost all he had and still saw his Redeemer, and Jesus Christ, in whom the search for meaning finds a face. The book never conscripts Frankl into Christianity. It does something quieter and more piercing: it traces the exact shape of the human need he mapped, then asks whose hands are formed to fit it.

Written for seeker and believer alike, gently and without coercion, this is an invitation to follow the longing for meaning all the way to its source. It is there that the why that finally conquers every how proves to be not a principle but a Person: Emmanuel, God with us, whose hands are nail-pierced.

If you are carrying a how that has grown too heavy, here is a why strong enough to bear it.

With a foreword by David Kuhnert. Includes a chapter-by-chapter Guide for Reflection & Discussion for classes, small groups, and personal study, and a complete Index of Scripture (KJV).