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The Creative Suffering of God (Paperback, Reissue)
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The Creative Suffering of God (Paperback, Reissue)
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
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The theme that God suffers with his world has become a familiar one
in recent years, but a careful examination is needed of what it
means to talk about the suffering of God, avoiding the danger of a
merely sentimental belief. This book offers a consistent way of
thinking about a God who suffers supremely and yet is still the
kind of God to whom the Christian tradition has witnessed, and also
about a God who suffers universally and yet is still present
uniquely in the cross of Christ. It is at once both a survey of
recent thought about the suffering of God and a proposal for a way
forward in this important area of Christian theology. The author
surveys four main trends of recent thought: the "theology of the
cross" in modern German theology (as represented particularly in
the work of Karl Barth, Jurgen Moltmann and Eberhard Jungel);
American process theology; the "death of God" theology and the
rejection of the whole idea of divine passibility by modern
followers of classical theism. This thematic structure enables an
idea of divine suffering to be developed throughout the book,
affirming that God freely chooses to limit Himself, to suffer
change, to journey through time and even to
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