Download or read book The Paradox of a Suffering God written by Amuluche Gregory Nnamani and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Suffering of the Impassible God written by Paul L. Gavrilyuk and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavrilyuk reconsiders the issue of divine suffering and divine emotions in the early Church Fathers, who are commonly criticized for accepting the argument of Hellenistic philosophy that God cannot suffer or feel emotions. He shows that this view represents a misreading of the evidence.
Download or read book The Book of Job written by Harold S. Kushner and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Jewish Encounter series From one of our most trusted spiritual advisers, a thoughtful, illuminating guide to that most fascinating of biblical texts, the book of Job, and what it can teach us about living in a troubled world. The story of Job is one of unjust things happening to a good man. Yet after losing everything, Job—though confused, angry, and questioning God—refuses to reject his faith, although he challenges some central aspects of it. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner examines the questions raised by Job’s experience, questions that have challenged wisdom seekers and worshippers for centuries. What kind of God permits such bad things to happen to good people? Why does God test loyal followers? Can a truly good God be all-powerful? Rooted in the text, the critical tradition that surrounds it, and the author’s own profoundly moral thinking, Kushner’s study gives us the book of Job as a touchstone for our time. Taking lessons from historical and personal tragedy, Kushner teaches us about what can and cannot be controlled, about the power of faith when all seems dark, and about our ability to find God. Rigorous and insightful yet deeply affecting, The Book of Job is balm for a distressed age—and Rabbi Kushner’s most important book since When Bad Things Happen to Good People.
Download or read book Paradoxology written by Krish Kandiah and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-01-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us have big questions about God that the Christian faith seems to leave unanswered. But what if that tension is exactly where faith comes alive? Paradoxology boldly claims that the paradoxes that seem to undermine belief are actually the heart of our vibrant faith, and it is only by continually wrestling with them that God is most clearly revealed.
Download or read book Surprised by Paradox written by Jen Pollock Michel and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world filled with ambiguity, we want faith to act like an orderly set of truth-claims to solve the problems that life throws at us. While there are certainties in Christian faith, at the heart of the Christian story is also paradox, and Jen Pollock Michel helps readers imagine a Christian faith open to mystery. Jesus invites us to abandon the polarities of either and or in order to embrace the difficult, wondrous dissonance of and.
Download or read book Suffering and the Sovereignty of God written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2006-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last few years, 9/11, a tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and many other tragedies have shown us that the vision of God in today's churches in relation to evil and suffering is often frivolous. Against the overwhelming weight and seriousness of the Bible, many Christians are choosing to become more shallow, more entertainment-oriented, and therefore irrelevant in the face of massive suffering. In Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, contributors John Piper, Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Saint, Carl Ellis, David Powlison, Dustin Shramek, and Mark Talbot explore the many categories of God's sovereignty as evidenced in his Word. They urge readers to look to Christ, even in suffering, to find the greatest confidence, deepest comfort, and sweetest fellowship they have ever known.
Download or read book The Paradox of Pain Uncovering the Only Avenue Towards Reconciling God s Goodness with Suffering written by James E. Buirkle and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All women and men of faith, whether they realize it or not, exist inside a paradox. Each night they pray to a God who they know to be in control of all things and perfectly good. It would not be unreasonable to fall asleep with the hope the night would bring no further blight upon His creation. Yet each morning they wake to find evil's scars anew. Once again, the paradox of pain has reared its ugly head. Is there a way to bring understanding to this paradox? Join the author and travel the only route possible. Traversing as through a maze, we will confront eight seemingly unsolvable quandaries that suffering presents. The path these problems force us upon will become our guide to uncovering God's purpose in allowing pain. And when we emerge from the maze, God's goodness will be fully vindicated as well as His wisdom in directing us to the sure refuge of faith when suffering becomes our portion. The author has spent the last 40 plus years in the medical field working as an intern, medical resident and then private practice as an internist. Paralleling this career has been a longstanding interest in the problem of suffering which was sparked by reading When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold Kushner. Being neither a philosopher or theologian has allowed the author to discover certain truths previously unrecognized. He presently resides in New York City with his wife, daughter, a Himalayan and two new knees.
Download or read book A Different God written by Kristiaan Depoortere and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristiaan Depoortere is a priest of the diocese of Brugge (Belgium) and professor of Pastoral Theology at the Catholic University of Leuven. He is also responsible for the Programme of Continuing Education for Pastoral Workers in Health Care (Faculty of Theology).
Download or read book The Suffering of the Impassible God written by Bertrand Rippington Brasnett and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God and Human Suffering written by Douglas John Hall and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 becomingthe fall--suffering as a burdenredemption--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.
Download or read book The Paradox of the World written by John Oman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1921, this book contains twenty-one sermons by British theologian John Oman. Oman discusses topics such as God's acceptance of failure, appearance and reality, and the Christian method of prayer, using accessible language for theologians and lay people alike. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in theology.
Download or read book God Suffers for Us written by J.Y. Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1974-10-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Suffering God written by Erling Eidem and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Count It All Joy written by John M Perkins and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can joy come from suffering? We think of suffering as the worst of all evils. Our culture tells us to avoid it at all costs. But can suffering produce growth in us when we learn to endure it . . . then value it . . . then allow God to redeem it? John Perkins’ response to suffering at the hands of a white sheriff in a Mississippi jail became the springboard that God used to put him in front of U.S. presidents, international politicians, and evangelical church leaders. Perkins sees endurance in suffering as a virtue that makes us more like Christ and ultimately produces uncommon joy in the heart of the sufferer who trusts in Him. Christ walked the path of love all the way to the cross, and even in the midst our brokenness, we can do the same. In Count It All Joy, you will be encouraged to lean into suffering when it comes your way, stand alongside others who suffer, and believe that God will repurpose your suffering according to His good plan. God doesn’t intend your life to be free of all suffering. Instead, He wants you trust Him in the midst of it and discover the unexpected joy that trials can produce.
Download or read book God and the Mystery of Human Suffering written by Robin Ryan and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holy Hell written by Willard R. Simmons and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we settle the conflict we all have as we grow older and experience more and more suffering, pain, and death ... and the idea that God is in control of it all? Willard R. Simmons, a former professor of biblical counseling at The Masters University, provides powerful, biblical answers in this book. He reveals that God has answers to even really challenging questions, such as: · Why does God allow terrible things to happen? · Is suffering an act of God or an act of men? · What are the ten pillars of suffering? · How can you respond to suffering in your life? · Why have the Jews suffered so much throughout history? The author emphasizes that the only way to begin understanding suffering is by understanding the truth that God has given us in the Bible. When all hell seems to break loose around us, it is ultimately from a Holy God. Find out why and what it means for you in Holy Hell.
Download or read book God Accused or Defended written by Larry E. Ford and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God: Accused or Defended? tackles a prickly subject about whether or not God is responsible for allowing both natural evils and moral evils to exist in His creation. The book is a theodicy that unravels some of the most tangled and knotted issues involved in this paradox. The biggest challenge is how to confront the various concepts held about God and what He is up to with humanity. Many theologians and philosophers have attempted to solve the apparent paradox by changing who or what God is. In that process, there have been four basic outcomes: (1) God must be redefined; (2) God cannot do anything about the situation; (3) God will not do anything about it; or (4) Its useless to think about, so it is best to abandon the faith. Using his many years of experience in biblical studies, the author resolves the paradox.
