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Themelios is an international evangelical theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith. Its primary audience is theological students and pastors, though scholars read it as well. It was formerly a print journal operated by RTSF/UCCF in the United Kingdom, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008. The new editorial team, led by D.A....

Kitamori published his famous and ground-breaking book Theology of the Pain of God in 1946.9 Other Asian theologians have subsequently followed him in emphasizing the divine suffering.10 For them, as for James Cone’s black theology, God’s suffering is a necessary part of his solidarity with the oppressed.11 American process theology, following A. N. Whitehead’s oft-quoted characterization of God as ‘the fellow-sufferer who understands’, has readily incorporated God’s suffering into its reformulation
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