God and Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross - Softcover

Hall, Douglas John

 
9780806623146: God and Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0806623144 ISBN 13: 9780806623146
Verlag: Augsburg Books, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

Professor Hall has written a major work on an agonizing subject, at once brilliant, comprehensive, and thought provoking.

In contrast to many writers who gloss over one or the other, Dr. Hall is true both to the reality of suffering and to the affirmation that God creates, sustains, and redeems.

Creative is his view that certain aspects of what we call suffering -- loneliness, experience of limits, temptation, anxiety -- are necessary parts of God's good creation. These he distinguishes from suffering after the fall, the tragic dimension of life.

Unique is his structure:

creation-suffering as becoming

the fall--suffering as a burden

redemption--conquest from within.

Professor Hall succeeds in moving the reader beyond the customary way of stating the problem: "How can undeserved suffering coexist with a just and almighty God?" He also evaluates five popular, leading thinkers on suffering: Harold Kushner, C.S. Lewis, Diogenes Allen, George Buttrick, and Leslie Weatherhead.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Douglas John Hall is emeritus professor of theology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Among the most widely read theologians in North America, Hall has written many popular and acclaimed works, including Lighten Our Darkness (1976), God and Human Suffering (1987), and Why Christian? (1998), as well as a full-scale trilogy in systematic theology: Thinking the Faith (1991), Professing the Faith (1996), and Confessing the Faith (1998), all from Fortress Press.

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Verlag
Augsburg Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0806623144
ISBN 13 
9780806623146
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
222
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