The Transforming God: An Interpretation of Suffering and EvilTheologian Tyron Inbody suggests a new understanding of God in this highly accessible introduction to Christian perspectives of suffering and evil. Interpreting suffering and evil as religious problems, Inbody analyzes and assesses the notion of an all-loving and omnipotent Deity found in classical theism. He concludes with a radical reinterpretation of the Christian Deity as a vulnerable, transforming God, one recognized by both process and Trinitarian theology. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Everything Is Beautiful in Its Own Way | 35 |
Why Did God Take My Baby? | 57 |
Fatal Attraction | 77 |
The Shadow Side of God | 99 |
Creation and Tragic Structure | 121 |
Thy Compassions They Fail Not | 141 |
God with | 163 |
Notes | 189 |
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References to this book
Living with Ambiguity: Religious Naturalism and the Menace of Evil Donald A. Crosby Limited preview - 2008 |
The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought Paul L. Gavrilyuk No preview available - 2004 |