God's Wounds

Jeff B. Pool is Associate Professor of Religion, College Chaplain, and Director of the Campus Christian Center, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.

• PrefacePrologue: Central Mystery of the Christian Symbol of Divine SufferingPart One. God's First Wound: Divine GriefIntroduction to Part One: The Structure of Divine GriefDivision One. Infidelity of the Beloved HumanIntroduction to Division One: Sin as Occasion of Divine Grief1 Human Cupiditas: Formal Characteristics2 Human Cupiditas: Material CharacteristicsDivision Two. Sorrow of the Betrayed Divine LoverIntroduction to Division Two: First Stage of Divine Grief3 Divine Sorrow: Formal Characteristics4 Divine Sorrow: Material CharacteristicsDivision Three Anguish of the Betrayed Divine LoverIntroduction to Division Three: Second Stage of Divine Grief5 Divine Anguish: Formal Characteristics6 Divine Anguish: Material CharacteristicsPart Two. God's Second Wound: Divine Self-SacrificeIntroduction to Part Two: The Structure of Divine Self-SacrificeDivision Four. Misery of the Beloved Human's InfidelityIntroduction to Division Four: Misery of Sin as Occasion for Divine Self-Sacrifice7 Misery of Human Cupiditas: Formal Characteristics8 Misery of Human Cupiditas: Material CharacteristicsDivision Five. Travail of the Betrayed Divine Lover's FidelityIntroduction to Division Five: First Stage of Divine Self-Sacrifice9 Divine Travail: Formal Characteristics10 Divine Travail: Material CharacteristicsDivision Six. Agony of the Betrayed Divine Lover's FidelityIntroduction to Division Six: Second Stage of Divine Self-Sacrifice11 Divine Agony: Formal Characteristics12 Divine Agony: Material CharacteristicsEpilogue: From Divine Agony to Divine AfflictionAppendicesAppendix 1: Insights from the Reformed Doctrine of Total DepravityAppendix 2: The Concepts of ???? and ????Appendix 3: Ancient Hellenistic Philosophy and the Christian Concept of Divine ImpassibilityAppendix 4: Analytical Distinctions between Fear, Anxiety, and AnguishAppendix 5: Divine Impassibility and Passibility in the Theology of OrigenAppendix 6: Arian Christologies of the Suffering LogosAppendix 7: Historic Variations on the Classic Christian Theory of AtonementAppendix 8: Fragments from the History of Patripassianist TheologyAppendix 9: Fragments from the History of Theopaschite TheologyBibliographyIndex of ScripturesIndex of PersonsIndex of Topics

"In this second of his three-volume phenomenological-hermeneutic of the Cristian symbol of divine suffering, Pool (religion, Berea College, Kentucky) develops an exposition of what he has described as the first two wounds of God - divine grief and divine self-sacrifice. For the first, he discusses infidelity of the beloved human, sorrow of the betrayed divine lover, and anguish of the betrayed divine lover. For the second, he discusses the misery of the beloved human's infidelity, travail of the betrayed divine lover's fidelity, and agony of the betrayed divine lover's fidelity. The other two volumes of God's Wounds cover divine vulnerability and creation, and divine suffering and tragic reality." Book News Inc,Reference - Research Book News - October 2011