Suffering and the Courage of God: Exploring How Grace & Suffering Meet
Description
As the recent tsunami disaster reveals, there is widespread discussion and disagreement about God's will and suffering - especially about what is traditionally called "natural evil." In most Christian teaching, God is transcendent, "above" the suffering, "beholding" it. God may sympathize, help, empower, and save, but God isn't trapped in the midst of it like the rest of us. For people with a belief in God, the onset of suffering often throws one into an acute sense of a chasm between the divine and the human. According to Robert Morris, a pastor, spi...
ISBN(s)
1557254281, 9781557254283