Description: How does one deal with doubt? Are faith and doubt
irreconcilable? Does one's understanding of God affect the answers
to these questions? Christian Kettler investigates these questions
from a christological perspective, drawing implications from the
Scottish theologian T. F. Torrance and his doctrine of ""the
vicarious humanity of Christ."" If we take the humanity of Christ
seriously, should we not speak of the faith of Jesus as a vicarious
faith, believing for us and in our place when it is difficult if
not impossible to believe? How Christians know God (""Jesus Knows
God for Us and in Our Place""), who God is (""Who is the God Whom
Jesus Knows?""), and how to believe in God in a world of suffering
and evil (""Providence, Evil, Suffering, and the God Who
Believes"") receive new insight in light of this christological
exploration. Wendell Berry's poignant novel of a humble country
barber, 'Jayber Crow, ' adds an incarnational context to a
discussion with important pastoral and existential dimensions. In
the vicarious faith of Christ we are not left, as James Torrance
cautions us, to be thrown back upon ourselves, but called to
participate by the Spirit in the faith of Jesus. Endorsements:
""This relentlessly honest encounter with evil, which refuses to
take comfort in the traditional theological bromides, finds no
answers anywhere except in Jesus Christ. Written in an engagingly
personal style, Kettler's heartfelt book shows how the doctrine of
the vicarious humanity of Christ can function as an effective
theodicy."" --Dale Allison author of Jesus of Nazareth ""Kettler
has a keen eye for the quest for faith in contemporary literature
and a profound grasp of the mediating power of the vicarious
humanity of Christ as the One who assumed doubting humanity in
order to create faithful humanity in his own person. This is a book
that fills the emotional void left untouched by most evangelical
theology and provides a muscular Christology to cover the bare
bones of post-liberal theology."" Ray S. Anderson author of The
Soul of God: A Theological Memoir ""Christians and non-Christians
alike will find many of their theological convictions challenged,
overturned, and even corrected when the light of the vicarious
humanity of Christ is focused upon those convictions. A must read
"" Charles Hughes Associate Professor of Religious Studies Chapman
University ""Especially well-suited for college and seminary
professors, as well as for church pastors, who wish to benefit from
a trinitarian-incarnational and pastorally-oriented theology,
written by one who has deeply felt what he has creatively
conceived."" Todd H. Speidell, author of Confessions of a Lapsed
Skeptic ""Most of us live our lives between faith and doubt. Chris
Kettler is a theologian that dares to enter that world in his book,
""The God Who Believes."" More importantly, Dr. Kettler reminds us
that God enters that world for us and with us in Jesus Christ. This
is a must read for anyone who is tired of the pat answers and
yearns for a robust and Reformed approach to faith and life.""
--Rev. Dr, Rob Erickson, Pastor, Covenant Presbyterian Church About
the Contributor(s): CHRISTIAN D. KETTLER is Professor of Theology
and Philosophy, Director of the Master of Arts in Christian
Ministry program at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, and an
ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is the
author of The Vicarious Humanity of Christ and the Reality of
Salvation, and co-editor (with Todd H. Speidell) of Incarnational
Ministry: The Presence of Christ in Church, Society, and Family:
Essays in Honor of Ray S. Anderson.
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