For No Reason: The Radical Theology of Job and What It Reveals About Suffering, Grief, and the Silence of God (Art of Living) - Couverture souple

Tiger, Arthur A

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235408562

Editeur : His Story for Us, 2026

Synopsis

"Everything happens for a reason."

It is the most common thing we say to people in pain - and the Bible contains an entire book written to take it apart.

That book is Job. For forty-two chapters it stares at the suffering of a good man and refuses to explain it. His friends arrive with all the right answers: that suffering is deserved, that God has a plan, that he must have done something wrong. And at the end God himself turns to them and says they have spoken of him falsely. The Bible's own verdict on the comfortable theology of suffering is that it is a lie.

In For No Reason, Arthur A. Tiger reads Job not as a puzzle to be solved but as a defense of everyone that comforting faith has wounded. He follows the book into its hardest places: a wager struck over a man's life, the language of despair that Scripture refuses to censor, the long silence of God, and a voice from the whirlwind that answers a grieving man not with an explanation but with a wild and ancient universe that was never built around us.

What emerges is a faith honest enough for the dark - one with room for protest, for unanswered questions, for grief and rage, and for a God who will not explain himself and will not leave.

If you were ever handed a reason for your pain and walked away more alone, this is the book that takes your side.

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À propos de l'auteur

Arthur A. Tiger is a writer and theologian who explores the territory where faith meets science, philosophy, and the mysteries of human experience. At the heart of his work stands the apostle Paul - a figure he returns to again and again, reconstructing lost epistles, reimagining Paul's voice for today, and tracing the depths of his radical transformation. Beyond Pauline studies, Tiger writes across an unusually wide range: from astrobiology and cosmology to psychology, relationships, and cultural criticism - always searching for the connections that unite these disciplines rather than divide them. His own journey from skepticism to faith runs through everything he writes. Rather than offering easy answers, he invites readers to discover that honest questioning and genuine belief are not opposites but companions - and that every scientific discovery is not a challenge to faith but an invitation to see it more clearly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: His Story for Us
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235408562
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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