Does God Suffer?

By: Thomas Weinandy

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Paperback | 15 February 2000

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The immense suffering caused by sin and evil within the modern world, especially in the light of the Holocaust, has had a profound impact on the contemporary understanding of God and his relationship to human suffering. Since the early part of this century there has been a growing consensus among theologians that God himself, within his divine nature, suffers in solidarity and love with those who suffer. This present theological position contradicts the traditional Christian understanding of almost two thousand years that God is impassible and so does not experience negative emotional states, such as suffering.

Thomas Weinandy, O.F.M., resolutely challenges this contemporary view of God and suffering. Calling upon scripture, and the philosophical and theological tradition of the Fathers and Aquinas, Weinandy creatively and systematically addresses all of the contemporary concerns. He strongly advocates the incarnational truth that the Son of God actually does experience, as man, all that pertains to living an authentic human life, and so does indeed suffer.

This book is both a challenge to much received contemporary philosophical and theological wisdom, and a scholarly, original, and refreshing account of the Christian Gospel. It is one of the most comprehensive Christian presentations of God and human suffering available today.

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"This is Christian theology at its best--intellectually vivid, spiritually acute, alert to the intricacies of the tradition, alive with human realities. No one who reads this book will come away from it without being provoked to fresh thinking and renewed engagement with the gospel mystery."--John Webster, Christ Church, Oxford

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Preface
The God Who Suffers	p. 1
Theology - Problems and Mysteries	p. 27
Yahweh: The Presence of the Wholly Other	p. 40
Bridges to the Patristic Doctrine of God	p. 69
The Patristic Doctrine of God	p. 83
The Trinity's Loving Act of Creation	p. 113
God's Love and Human Suffering	p. 147
The Incarnation - The Impassible Suffers	p. 172
The Redemptive Suffering of Christ	p. 214
Suffering in the Light of Christ	p. 243
Conclusion	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 288
Index of Names	p. 305
Index of Subjects	p. 309
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