Description: This book constitutes the first volume of a
three-volume study of Christian testimonies to divine suffering:
God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine
Suffering, Divine Vulnerability and Creation. This study first
develops an approach to interpreting the contested claims about the
suffering of God. Thus, the larger study focuses its inquiry into
the testimonies to divine suffering themselves, seeking to allow
the voices that attest to divine suffering to speak freely, to
discover and elucidate the internal logic or rationality of this
family of testimonies, rather than defending these attestations
against the dominant claims of classical Christian theism that have
historically sought to eliminate such language altogether from
Christian discourse about the nature and life of God. Through this
approach this volume of studies into the Christian symbol of divine
suffering then investigates the two major presuppositions that the
larger family of testimonies to divine suffering normally hold: an
understanding of God through the primary metaphor of love (""God is
love""); and an understanding of the human as created in the image
of God, with a life (though finite) analogous to the divine
life--the imago Dei as love. When fully elaborated, these
presuppositions reveal the conditions of possibility for divine
suffering and divine vulnerability with respect to creation.
Endorsements: ""Jeff Pool has written a thorough and thoughtful
study of the issues raised regarding a God who suffers. His careful
and groundbreaking work ranges widely across the theological
disciplines, including the biblical fields, evident not least in
his remarkably inclusive bibliography. All who will address this
theme in the next generation must take this study seriously into
account."" --Terence E. Fretheim, Luther Seminary ""Taking his
personal direction from Bonhoeffer, 'Only the suffering God can
help, ' Jeff B. Pool opens up an alternative Christian
understanding of the symbol of God's wounds. With astonishing
breadth of scholarship and critical insight, he draws upon the
resources of the Christian tradition to set forth a vision of hope
for the post-modern and post-Christian worlds. His personal
engagement with this symbol--it is not 'doctrine, ' he
argues--provides a rich and inviting 'hermeneutic of love.' It is
God and God's suffering, creative love that shine through these
pages."" --Frank D Rees Whitley College, University of Melbourne
""With rigor and discipline--and moving deftly across many streams
of analogy, Scripture, and creaturely experience--Jeff Pool guides
us deep into the symbolism of God's suffering and vulnerability and
undertakes a new mapping of the divine and human 'logic of love.'
The culminating chapters of this first volume of God's Wounds are
among the most succinct theological-ethical interpretations of the
paradigm of God and humanity constituted as love that I have
read."" --Larry D. Bouchard, University of Virginia About the
Contributor(s): Jeff B. Pool is Associate Professor of Religion,
College Chaplain, and Director of the Campus Christian Center,
Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.
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