God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering (Volume I: Divine Vulnerability and Creation)

God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering (Volume I: Divine Vulnerability and Creation)

Jeff B. Pool
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Author:  Jeff B. Pool
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  376
Publisher:  James Clarke & Co Ltd
Year:  2011
ISBN:  9780227173596

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.

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