Kathleen McManus employs Edward Schillebeeckx's method of negative contrast experience to explore how the global suffering of the marginalized, particularly women, reveals God's vulnerable rule, posing an ethical imperative for the church.
Kathleen McManus employs Edward Schillebeeckx's method of negative contrast experience to explore how the global suffering of the marginalized, particularly women, reveals God's vulnerable rule, posing an ethical imperative for the church.
In Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, contributors John Piper, Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Saint, Carl Ellis, David Powlison, Dustin Shramek, and Mark Talbot explore the many categories of God's sovereignty as evidenced in his Word.
God impresses on Job his inability to understand, and therefore to criticize, how God rules the world. The suffering that God allows is a mystery we cannot penetrate. The book leaves suffering wrapped in deeper darkness than ever.
It was the wisdom of God to judge both Jews and Gentiles under sin so that he would show mercy to all ( Rom 11:32 ) . God did this through the reconciling ministry of Jesus , who is both the power and the wisdom of God ( 1 Cor 1:24 ) .
With this new book Verhey brings the biblical tradition to bear on contemporary bioethical concerns. Drawing on an unmatched depth of insight in these two realms, Verhey explores how the Bible can illuminate and guide medical ethics.
This volume of essays embodies her invitation to awaken as beloved community.
It reaches to improvise a contemporary enactment of Jesus's encounters with the oppressed and dispossessed of his own day, ... those in “ministerial authority” are called to model the “vulnerable, even helpless, rule of God.
In that way we manifest God's vulnerability in the vulnerability of our love and our readiness for change . To isolate oneself and to seek to dominate even in mission are probably always signs of incapacity to suffer . The God who wins ...
This book shows that a God who is not emotionally vulnerable is a God unworthy of our imitation. But in what sense can we call divine impassibility immoral? To be sure, God's moral nature teaches humanswhat it means to live virtuously.
God's being is being - in - act , not a static essence aloof from God's dynamic relationship with the world . ... God became known as responsive , vulnerable , suffering because of human sin , and long - suffering on behalf of human ...