God's Wounds

Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering (Volume I: Divine Vulnerability and Creation)

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

AvJeff B. Pool

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God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering, Volume I: Divine Vulnerability and Creation is the first of a three-volume study of Christian testimonies to divine suffering. The larger study focuses its inquiry on the testimonies to divine suffering themselves, seeking to allow the voices that attest to divine suffering to speak freely. The goal is then 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.In this first volume, the author develops an approach to interpreting the contested claims about the suffering of God. Through this approach to the Christian symbol of divine suffering, he 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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Utgivningsdatum2011-07-28
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9780227173596

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PrefacePrologue: Terrible Sublimity of the Christian Symbol of Divine SufferingPart One Orientations for Encounter with theChristian Symbol of Divine SufferingIntroduction: Approaching the Symbol1 Delimitation of the Problem2 Procedural Principles3 Hypothetical Structure of the Christian Symbol of Divine SufferingPart Two Presuppositions of the Christian Symbol of Divine SufferingIntroduction: Conditions of Possibility for Divine SufferingDivision One Divine Lover: Self-limiting Divine CreatorIntroduction to Division One: Divine Life and Creative Activity4 Divine Lover: Divine Life as Love5 Divine Lover: Divine Life as Love in CreationDivision Two Beloved Human: Imago Dei and Imitatio Dei as LoveIntroduction to Division Two: Human Life as Image and Imitation of God6 Beloved Human: Imago Dei as Love7 Beloved Human: Imitatio Dei as Love8 Human Life as Caritas and the CosmosEpilogue: From Divine Vulnerability to Divine SufferingBibliographyIndex of ScripturesIndex of PersonsIndex of Topics

"Pool (religion, Berea College, Kentucky) investigates the Christian symbol of divine suffering by examining Christian attestations or testimonies to the suffering God in three volumes. His topics include delimiting the problem, a hypothetical structure, divine lover as self-limiting divine creator, and beloved human: imago dei and imitato dei as love. The other two volumes of God's Wounds cover evil and divine suffering, and divine suffering and tragic reality." Book News Inc, Reference - Research Book News - October 2011