Description: How does one deal with despair? Are joy and despair
irreconcilable? How does the joy and despair of Jesus Christ relate
to our joy and despair? Continuing to explore the implications of
the vicarious humanity of Christ as he did in The God Who Believes,
Christian Kettler investigates the christological implications of
the all too human phenomenon of despair. All people experience the
pain of personal loss and lack, of the meaninglessness of
existence. We also desire and covet joy, as difficult as it is
often to define or maintain. Jesus was both ""the man of sorrows""
and one who ""for the joy set before him endured the cross"" (Heb
12:2). Can we think of the despair of Christ and the joy of Christ
as both being vicarious, in our place and on our behalf, and thus
have a theological way to possess joy in the midst of despair as
well as to have a more robust theology of the atonement? Drawing on
wide-ranging resources from Augustine, Calvin, Karl Barth, and T.
F. Torrance to Bob Dylan, the fantasy writer Ray Bradbury, and Ed
Wood, the director of Plan Nine from Outer Space, Kettler seeks to
bring Trinitarian and incarnational theology deep into our flesh,
filled with real despair and joy, and find that Jesus is there,
with his own despair, there to lift us up with his own joy.
Endorsements: ""Chris Kettler's The God Who Rejoices, joins his
fine book, The God Who Believes, as two indispensible texts for
connecting Christology to the Christian life. Kettler has learned
the most important lessons from his teachers and now imparts them
to his readers. These books are soon to be in the category of
Christian classics. I certainly hope that we will be treated to a
few more by this seasoned theologian and master teacher, but for
now we have a second text fit for use by theologians and pastors
alike, either for the classroom or a bible study. Wherever despair
reigns, this book offers a timely intervention."" --Willie James
Jennings Duke Divinity School ""In this book Christian Kettler
offers a profound diagnosis of the despair that resides just
underneath the surface of so much of modern life. However, the
value of this book rests less on its perceptive diagnosis than on
the surprising gift of joy Kettler espies in the gospel of Jesus
Christ, a gift that is rooted in the cross (Heb.12:2 ) and
encompasses suffering and loss as well as beauty and delight. Here
one finds ample witness to what the modern world, and perhaps the
church most of all, least expects: joy in the life of the triune
God."" --Thomas W. Currie Union-PSCE at Charlotte ""Chris advances
the trajectory set forth by T. F. Torrance and Ray Anderson,
offering a poignant, comprehensive exposition of both despair and
joy in order to show how only the vicarious humanity of Jesus
Christ provides a genuine answer to despair and joy . . . His
approach will puzzle some and disturb others, but should in all
cases provoke clarifying self-examination of inherited assumptions
that won't bear the weight of experience. I've been waiting for
this book and did not even know it. Now I cannot wait to recommend
it to my friends "" --Don Payne Denver Seminary About the
Contributor(s): Christian D. Kettler is Professor of Theology and
Philosophy, at Friends University and Theologian in Residence at
the Church of the Savior in Wichita, Kansas. He is the author of
The God Who Believes: Faith, Doubt, and the Vicarious Humanity of
Christ (Cascade Books, 2005).
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