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Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering
Contributor(s): Boyd, Gregory A. (Author)
ISBN: 0830823948     ISBN-13: 9780830823949
Publisher: IVP
OUR PRICE:   $21.60  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2003
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Annotation: Moves beyond pat answers to the problem of suffering and takes a deeper look at hard to reconcile issues.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
- Family & Relationships | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Religion | Christian Living - Death, Grief, Bereavement
Dewey: 231.8
LCCN: 2003010909
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.53" W x 8.28" (0.65 lbs) 211 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Evangelical
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Topical - Death/Dying
 
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Publisher Description:

Is God to blame? This is often the question that comes to mind when we confront real suffering in our own lives or in the lives of those we love. Pastor Gregory A. Boyd helps us deal with this question honestly and biblically, while avoiding glib answers. Writing for ordinary Christians, Boyd wrestles with a variety of answers that have been offered by theologians and pastors in the past. He finds that a fully Christian approach must keep the person and work of Jesus Christ at the very center of what we say about human suffering and God's place in it. Yet this is often just what is missing and what makes so much talk about the subject seem inadequate and at times even misleading. What comes through in Is God to Blame? is a hopeful picture of a sovereign God who is relentlessly opposed to evil, who knows our sufferings and who can be trusted to bring us through them to renewed life.

Contributor Bio(s): Boyd, Gregory A.: - Gregory A. Boyd (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is a pastor at Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Previously, he was a professor of theology at Bethel University, also in St. Paul. His books include Recovering the Real Jesus in an Age of Revisionist Replies, Letters from a Skeptic, God of the Possible, Repenting of Religion, Seeing is Believing, Escaping the Matrix, The Jesus Legend, Myth of a Christian Nation, Is God to Blame, God at War and Satan and the Problem of Evil.