| God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering (Volume I: Divine Vulnerability and Creation) Contributor(s): Pool, Jeff B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0227173597 ISBN-13: 9780227173596 Publisher: James Clarke Company OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Christology - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General - Religion | Inspirational |
| Dewey: 231.8 |
| LCCN: 2009504492 |
| Series: Princeton Theological Monograph |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.15 lbs) 376 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering, Volume I: Divine Vulnerability and Creation is the first of a three-volume study of Christian testimonies to divine suffering. The larger study focuses its inquiry on the testimonies to divine suffering themselves, seeking to allow the voices that attest to divine suffering to speak freely. The goal is then to discover and elucidate the internal logic or rationality of this family of testimonies, rather than defending these attestations against the dominant claims of classical Christian theism that have historically sought to eliminate such language altogether from Christian discourse about the nature and life of God. In this first volume, the author develops an approach to interpreting the contested claims about the suffering of God. Through this approach to the Christian symbol of divine suffering, he then investigates the two major presuppositions that the larger family of testimonies to divine suffering normally hold: an understanding of God through the primary metaphor of love ('God is love'); and an understanding of the human as created in the image of God, with a life (though finite) analogous to the divine life - the imago Dei as love. When fully elaborated, these presuppositions reveal the conditions of possibility for divine suffering and divine vulnerability with respect to creation. |