Professor Hall has written a major work on an agonizing subject, at once brilliant, comprehensive, and thought provoking. In contrast to many writers who gloss over one or the other, Dr. Hall is true both to the reality of suffering and to the affirmation that God creates, sustains, and redeems. Creative is his view that certain aspects of what we call suffering -- loneliness, experience of limits, temptation, anxiety -- are necessary parts of God's good creation. These he distinguishes from suffering after the fall, the tragic dimension of life. Unique is his structure: creation-suffering as becoming the fall--suffering as a burden redemption--conquest from within. Professor Hall succeeds in moving the reader beyond the customary way of stating the problem: "How can undeserved suffering coexist with a just and almighty God?" He also evaluates five popular, leading thinkers on suffering: Harold Kushner, C.S. Lewis, Diogenes Allen, George Buttrick, and Leslie Weatherhead.
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Of all the treatments of this difficult subject of God's presence in suffering, Douglas John Hall's is the most helpful that I've read. This is a serious theological treatment of a complicated and emotional issue. Hall brings biblical theological clarity to readers while also addressing other popular treatments to the subject. Unless we understand the theology of the cross and God's self-limitation in love as he relates to humanity, we will end up frustrated and ultimately lacking in our understanding. I highly recommend this book to all who want to seriously grapple with the question of suffering.
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Hall is the best in treatment of the intersection of God in Suffering. A sound theologian and scholar who is incredibly readable, Hall manages to treat suffering from a non-dualistic viewpoint without abandoning a Christian faith foundation. He explains the negative exists in the service of the positive. He holds that suffering, presumably that resulting from the negative aspect of life, can help the human to reach a fuller potential and to develop a deeper sense of compassion. Hall is an excellent theologian and the only one I have found who holds a viable "provisional dualism." He was my main theologian in writing my M. Div thesis . . . I used other of his writings as well.
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This is a difficult read for the non-professional Christian,
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This is written mainly for Christian scholars, of which I guess I am one now, but I found it to be a difficult read.
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The tradition of Jerusalem takes its stand on two basic affirmations concerning the human condition: the first is that suffering is real and is the existential lot of "fallen" humanity-"All flesh is grass. . . ; surely the people is grass." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The tradition of Jerusalem takes its stand on two basic affirmations concerning the human condition: the first is that suffering is real and is the existential lot of "fallen" humanity-"All flesh is grass. . . ; surely the people is grass." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
creational theology, creaturely condition, theologia gloriae, atonement theology, connection between sin, creation theology, theologia crucis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jesus Christ, First World, New World, North American, Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Christian Science, Middle Ages New!
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- The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A Life of Jesus by Shusaku Endo on page 114, and Back Matter
- The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The crucified God: The cross of Christ as the foundation and criticism of Christian theology by Jurgen Moltmann in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Evil, Suffering and Religion by Brian Hebblethwaite in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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