David H. Kelsey (Connecticut Yale University)

Human Anguish and God's Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is for seminary and doctrinal students in theology, theologically reflective clergy, and anyone else who is troubled by the suggestion that because God is unrestricted power, God must be the explanation of 'why' horrendous suffering happens.

Produktdetails

• Current Issues in Theology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 196mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9781108836975
• ISBN-10: 1108836976
• Artikelnr.: 60064401

Autorenporträt

David H. Kelsey is the Weigle Professor Emeritus of Theology at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of Proving Doctrine (1999), Imaging Redemption (2005), and Eccentric Existence (2 vols., 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: consoling anguish and making it worse
I. Glory: 2. The glory of the triune God
II. Kingdom: 3. God's intrinsic "sovereignty"
4. Creation, providence, and theologically problematic pastoral consolation
5. The triune God's sovereignty in two registers
6. Excursus: must God have only one eternal purpose?
III. Power: 7. Assumptions about God's power in problematic pastoral remarks
8. The triune God's intrinsic power
9. The triune God's power in two registers
10. The "uselessness: of the triune God
11. Stammering in praise of the useless triune God.