Loading…

Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering is unavailable, but you can change that!

“This book will make no attempt to defend God.… If you are looking for a book that boasts triumphantly of conquest over a great enemy, or gives a detached philosophical analysis that neatly solves an absorbing problem, this isn’t it.” Too often the Christian attitude toward suffering is characterized by a detached academic appeal to God’s sovereignty, as if suffering were a game or a math...

sentimentality is not a sign of our willingness to be realistic but of preconceptions of God informed by unbiblical impulses, such as those acquired from bad television and sloppy preaching. Take careful note of the places that the Bible’s descriptions of God make us uncomfortable, and ask why they do so. These observations reveal broader problems in our thinking and attitudes. These are the places to dig in and rebuild. Zephaniah’s words call us to reconsider what we imagine God to be like, to ask
Page 12
Buy this book at Logos.com