Current Issues in Theology #: Human Anguish and God's Power

Current Issues in Theology #: Human Anguish and God's Power
David Kelsey
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17 Dec 2020 UK
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9781108836975
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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.

Human Anguish and God's Power
Humility of the Eternal Son, The: Reformed Kenoticism and the Repair of Chalcedon
Law and the Rule of God: A Christian Engagement with Shari'a
Reconsidering John Calvin
Rethinking Paul: Protestant Theology and Pauline Exegesis

' 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 ' In these pages, the distinguished theologian David Kelsey explores God' s power, with an eye to sensitive pastoral concern for believers who struggle in the face of tragic suffering. Exposing all the false ways that cultural notions of "useful" force are projected onto the traditional notion of divine power, Kelsey commends an understanding of providence as the glory of God' s sovereignty manifested in three, interrelated biblical plots that reveal how the power of the Trinitarian God is actualized in God' s own divine life and in God' s relation to creation. Kelsey insightfully argues that scripture' s diverse rendering of providential power sets the proper context for reflection on God' s efficacy toward suffering, and the directions he charts will inform theological discussion for many years to come. ' John E. Thiel, Fairfield University
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).
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ISBN-13: 9781108836975
Published: 17 Dec 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 223mm
Width: 145mm
Spine: 29mm
Weight: 650g
Pages: 448

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