God and Human Suffering - Couverture souple

Hall, Douglas John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806623144 ISBN 13 : 9780806623146

Editeur : Augsburg Books, 1987

Synopsis

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 becoming the fall--suffering as a burden redemption--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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Douglas John Hall is emeritus professor of theology at <a href=""http://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/about/faculty-staff/douglas-john-hall"">McGill University</a> in Montreal, Quebec. Among the most widely read theologians in North America, Hall has written many popular and acclaimed works, including Lighten Our Darkness (1976), God and Human Suffering (1987), and Why Christian? (1998), as well as a full-scale trilogy in systematic theology: Thinking the Faith (1991), Professing the Faith (1996), and Confessing the Faith (1998), all from Fortress Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Augsburg Books
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806623144
• ISBN 13: 9780806623146
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 222
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