Divine Impassibility And The Mystery Of Human Suffering
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Author | : James Keating |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2009-07-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802863477 |
"James F. Keating and Thomas Joseph White have gathered here a selection of essays that consider how God's suffering or lack thereof can relate to our redemption from and through human suffering. The contributors - Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox - tread carefully but surely over this thorny ground, defending diverse and often opposing perspectives. Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering is an excellent contribution to the latest stage in this difficult and important theological controversy."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Thomas Gerard Weinandy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
The author of this book challenges the contemporary view of God and suffering. Calling upon scripture, and the philosophical and theological tradition of the Fathers and Aquinas, he advocates the incarnational truth that the Son of God actually does experience human living, including suffering.
Author | : Robin Ryan |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Suffering |
ISBN | : 1893757900 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1984-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781451418842 |
In this comprehensive and thought-provoking study, Terence Fretheim focuses on the theme of divine suffering, an aspect of our understanding of God which both the church and scholarship have neglected. Maintaining that "metaphors matter," Fretheim carefully examines the ruling and anthropomorphic metaphors of the Old Testament and discusses them in the context of current biblical-theological scholarship. His aim is to broaden our understanding of the God of the Old Testament by showing that "suffering belongs to the person and purpose of God".
Author | : Paul L. Gavrilyuk |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2004-03-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191533548 |
The Suffering of the Impassible God provides a major reconsideration of the issue of divine suffering and divine emotions in the early Church Fathers. Patristic writers are commonly criticized for falling prey to Hellenistic philosophy and uncritically accepting the claim that God cannot suffer or feel emotions. Gavrilyuk shows that this view represents a misreading of evidence. In contrast, he construes the development of patristic thought as a series of dialectical turning points taken to safeguard the paradox of God's voluntary and salvific suffering in the Incarnation.
Author | : James E. Dolezal |
Publisher | : Reformation Heritage Books |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2017-07-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1601785550 |
Unknown to many, increasing numbers of conservative evangelicals are denying basic tenets of classical Christian teaching about God, with departures occurring even among those of the Calvinistic persuasion. James E. Dolezal’s All That Is in God provides an exposition of the historic Christian position while engaging with these contemporary deviations. His convincing critique of the newer position he styles “theistic mutualism” is philosophically robust, systematically nuanced, and biblically based. It demonstrates the need to maintain the traditional viewpoint, particularly on divine simplicity, and spotlights the unfortunate implications for other important Christian doctrines—such as divine eternality and the Trinity—if it were to be abandoned. Arguing carefully and cogently that “all that is in God is God Himself,” the work is sure to stimulate debate on the issue in years to come.
Author | : J.Y. Lee |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1974-10-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789024716142 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing in his cell in a Nazi prison, expressed a most remarkable idea. "Men go to God in His need. " This is the insight, he observed, which distinguishes the Christian faith from all other religions. It is a universal belief that God, or the gods, should come to help man in his mortal, human need. But this is not the God and Father of Jesus Christ. Even as Jesus in Gethsemane chided his disciples for their sloth in not keeping watch with him during his agony, so God the Father must look to His creatures for their faith and sympathy. Therein lies the basis for the Christian answer to man kind's perennial complaint: Why do men suffer? Not all theologians, believing Christians, or believers in a personal God can share this idea. Traditionally the Eastern Orthodox thinkers have adhered to the rule of apophatic theology: that is, there are boundaries of knowledge about God which the human mind, even when enlightened by revelation, cannot cross. So who can say that God the Eternal One is susceptible to what we call suffering? It is better to hold one's silence on so deep a mystery. Still others are loathe to acknowledge God's passibility for varying reasons. God is ultimate and perfect; therefore he cannot know suffering or other emotions. God is impersonal; therefore it is meaningless to ascribe personal, anthro popathic feelings to Him. Many angels may fear to tread on the ground of this most difficult question.
Author | : J. Todd Billings |
Publisher | : Brazos Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2015-02-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441222901 |
At the age of thirty-nine, Christian theologian Todd Billings was diagnosed with a rare form of incurable cancer. In the wake of that diagnosis, he began grappling with the hard theological questions we face in the midst of crisis: Why me? Why now? Where is God in all of this? This eloquently written book shares Billings's journey, struggle, and reflections on providence, lament, and life in Christ in light of his illness, moving beyond pat answers toward hope in God's promises. Theologically robust yet eminently practical, it engages the open questions, areas of mystery, and times of disorientation in the Christian life. Billings offers concrete examples through autobiography, cultural commentary, and stories from others, showing how our human stories of joy and grief can be incorporated into the larger biblical story of God's saving work in Christ.
Author | : David Bentley Hart |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802866867 |
As news reports of the horrific December 2004 tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof of either God s power or God s nonexistence, asking over and over, How could a good and loving God if such exists allow such suffering? In The Doors of the Sea David Bentley Hart speaks at once to those skeptical of Christian faith and to those who use their Christian faith to rationalize senseless human suffering. He calls both to recognize in the worst catastrophes not the providential will of God but rather the ongoing struggle between the rebellious powers that enslave the world and the God who loves it wholly.
Author | : J. K. Mozley |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2021-09-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1666734268 |
The present volume has grown out of a task assigned to me during the meetings of the Archbishops’ Doctrinal Commission in September 1924, to prepare a historical statement on the subject of the Impassibility of God. - From the Preface