Facing the Abusing God

Facing the Abusing God
Author: David R. Blumenthal
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664254643

Looking at the experience of Holocaust survivors and of survivors of child abuse, this work asks disturbing questions why God permits victimization of the innocent.

Haunted by God

Haunted by God
Author: James McBride Dabbs
Publisher: Richmond, Va. : John Knox Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1972
Genre: History
ISBN:

When We Talk about God, Let's Be Honest

When We Talk about God, Let's Be Honest
Author: R. Kirby Godsey
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780881460193

This is a thought-provoking book that deals with practical issues of the Christian faith. It illuminates a number of misconceptions based on social customs or traditions regarding grace, faith, salvation, judgment, and other basics of the Christian religion.

God vs. the Gavel

God vs. the Gavel
Author: Marci A. Hamilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2005-05-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139445030

God vs. the Gavel challenges the pervasive assumption that all religious conduct deserves constitutional protection. While religious conduct provides many benefits to society, it is not always benign. The thesis of the book is that anyone who harms another person should be governed by the laws that govern everyone else - and truth be told, religion is capable of great harm. This may not sound like a radical proposition, but it has been under assault since the 1960s. The majority of academics and many religious organizations would construct a fortress around religious conduct that would make it extremely difficult to prosecute child abuse by clergy, medical neglect of children by faith-healers, and other socially unacceptable behaviors. This book intends to change the course of the public debate over religion by bringing to the public's attention the tactics of religious entities to avoid the law and therefore harm others.

Did God Screw Up?

Did God Screw Up?
Author: Th M. Victor Garrod
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2010-05-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0557464188

This book is the first of its kind from a lifetime of research which started out during the bombing raids by the Germans in 1941 (World War 2) in Plymouth, England, the second most heavily bombed city in England.Victor traces his remarkable journey over a period of more than 65 years. He offers an unsparing indictment of the American addiction to religion--from television to the Web. The American experiment with religion and right-winged wacko fundamentalism is an insult to the American intellectual who is a freethinker endowed with scientific intellectualism, freethought and enlightenment.The toxic dependency on American anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism is proof religion has addled the minds of most Americans. This book offers ample proof that the god you think exists, doesn't exist at all. Two thousand years of lies are finally blown away by this book which reveals the total absurdity and ridiculousness of such a diabolical, theological pursuit.

Why Does God Allow Suffering?

Why Does God Allow Suffering?
Author: D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Suffering
ISBN: 9780891077763

Does God care about the sin and suffering in the world today? Why doesn't God put a stop to the violence? Does He really answer prayer? These are just a few of the themes Dr. Lloyd-Jones dicusses in this challenging and stimulating book that offers insight into the mystery of God's ways.

Pious Irreverence

Pious Irreverence
Author: Dov Weiss
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 081224835X

Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age (70 CE-800 CE).

The Female Face of God in Auschwitz

The Female Face of God in Auschwitz
Author: Melissa Raphael
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415236645

The first full-length feminist dialogue with Holocaust theory, theology and social history. Considers women's reactions to the holy in the camps at Auschwitz.

Playing God

Playing God
Author: Andy Crouch
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-09-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830837655

With Playing God, Andy Crouch opens the subject of power, elucidating its subtle activity in our relationships and institutions. He gives us much more than a warning against abuse, though. Turning the notion of "playing God" on its head, Crouch celebrates power as the gift by which we join in God's creative, redeeming work in the world.

Deceived by God?

Deceived by God?
Author: John S. Feinberg
Publisher: Good News Publishers
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780891078869

You've prayed for God's will. You're living for Him. And still, you encounter pain like you've never imagined. Doubt threatens to shatter your faith at Its core. What then? Philosopher and theologian John Feinberg explores the problem of pain and suffering as it manifested itself in his own family. He shows how Christians can find hope and strength in the midst of painful circumstances.