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Grief and Pain in the Plan of God: Christian Assurance and the Message of Lamentations is unavailable, but you can change that!

Most of us will have faced that most delicate situation of meeting a person who is suffering. We tend to go down one of two different avenues—one is to offer well-intentioned advice: often in the form of well-worn cliches that the person will have heard several times before. The other is not to say anything at all: risking the danger of leaving the person under the impression that God has no idea...

depersonalised.… Anger is an insistence on the personal—it is the antithesis of impersonal fate or abstract law.’29 Probably the best contemporary discussion ever given to this problem of divine anger is to be found in the writings of Abraham J. Heschel. God, he explained, is … moved and affected by what happens in the world, and reacts accordingly. Events and human actions arouse in Him joy or sorrow, pleasure or wrath. He is not conceived as judging the world in detachment. He reacts in an animate
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