Del 16 - Current Issues in Theology

Human Anguish and God's Power

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av David H. Kelsey, Connecticut) Kelsey, David H. (Yale University, David H Kelsey

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Persons anguished by another's profound suffering are often outraged by well-intentioned efforts to console them which suggest that God 'sent' that horrific suffering to their loved one for a 'purpose' according to a tailor-made 'plan' for just that person. However, the outraged reaction simply deepens the anguish. This book argues that such 'consolation' is theologically problematic because it assumes that unrestricted power is what makes God 'God.' Against that it outlines an account of 'who' and 'what' the Triune God is, framed in terms of God's intrinsic 'glory,' the attractive and perfectly self-expressive self-giving in love that is God's life, and sets limits to the range of things we can say God 'does.' Correlatively it offers an account of different senses in which God is 'sovereign' and 'powerful', one which reflects three ways God relates to all else: to create, to bless eschatologically, and to reconcile, as is scripturally narrated.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-12-17
Mått145 x 223 x 29 mm
Vikt650 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCurrent Issues in Theology
Antal sidor448
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108836975

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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