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 ...
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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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New. Over the past century, the traditional doctrine that God is impassible--that He is ''without passions, '' and therefore does not suffer--has been increasingly and radically called into question. One could even say it is the consensus of modern theologians that God does indeed suffer, and that in that capacity to suffer with His creation, we can find great solace and the beginnings of an answer to the problem of evil. This new book would beg to differ, and instead claim that it is only in the orthodox doctrine of God's impassibility, rightly understood in terms of a similarly orthodox doctrine of the Incarnation and the ''communication of idioms, '' that we can truly find the rock-solid, eternal love that can assuage our pain. Through a closely-argued survey of the scriptural background, the Fathers, and Aquinas, Weinandy makes his claims (following a supporting quote from Cyril of Alexandria emphasizing the Son of God having truly suffered in the flesh): ''Who is it who truly experiences the authentic, genuine, and undiminished reality of human suffering? None other than the divine Son of God! He who is one in being (homoousion) with the Father. What is the manner in which he experiences the whole reality of human suffering? As man! It is actually the Son of God who lives a comprehensive human life, and so it is the Son who, as man, experiences all facets of this human life, including suffering and death. '' This important study offers not only important conclusions in support of orthodox tradition, but also the best sort of example of theologizing through the sources and grammar of orthodox tradition. 310 pp.
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