David H. Kelsey is the Weigle Professor Emeritus of Theology at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of Proving Doctrine (1999), Imaging Redemption (2005), and Eccentric Existence (2 vols., 2009).

• 1. Introduction: consoling anguish and making it worse; I. Glory: 2. The glory of the triune God; II. Kingdom: 3. God's intrinsic “sovereignty”; 4. Creation, providence, and theologically problematic pastoral consolation; 5. The triune God's sovereignty in two registers; 6. Excursus: must God have only one eternal purpose?; III. Power: 7. Assumptions about God's power in problematic pastoral remarks; 8. The triune God's intrinsic power; 9. The triune God's power in two registers; 10. The “uselessness: of the triune God; 11. Stammering in praise of the useless triune God.

'The central message of Human Anguish and God's Power is intensely practical, reminding Christians that when they seek to speak of God in the face of suffering, they can only stammer. Yet in exploring the reasons for this stammering - the impossibility of synthesizing into a single account the different ways in which God works to bless us - David Kelsey manages something very close to a dogmatics in miniature, ranging across the full sweep of God's creative, reconciling and redeeming work with a combination of pastoral and theological sensitivity that shows how even stammering can give powerful witness to God's glory.' Ian A. McFarland, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology, Emory University