The Wrath of a Loving God - Taize, Brother John of
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The portrait of an angry God, quick to condemn, that many people claim to find in the pages of the Bible is undoubtedly one of the greatest obstacles to faith. The modern tendency to efface all traces of anger from our image of God is therefore comprehensible. But might this procedure not risk mutilating the authentic character of the biblical God? Could the theme of divine wrath, properly understood, rather than being a primitive vestige or an aberration, perhaps offer a key to understanding a love ""as fierce as death,"" an approach to the mystery of our redemption in Christ? That is the challenge that this book attempts to take up.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The portrait of an angry God, quick to condemn, that many people claim to find in the pages of the Bible is undoubtedly one of the greatest obstacles to faith. The modern tendency to efface all traces of anger from our image of God is therefore comprehensible. But might this procedure not risk mutilating the authentic character of the biblical God? Could the theme of divine wrath, properly understood, rather than being a primitive vestige or an aberration, perhaps offer a key to understanding a love ""as fierce as death,"" an approach to the mystery of our redemption in Christ? That is the challenge that this book attempts to take up.
Autorenporträt
A native of Philadelphia, Brother John has been a member of the Taize Community since 1974. He spends much of his time speaking about the Bible to participants in the international meetings held in Taize, France. For part of each year he travels to the United States and Italy for meetings and retreats. He has written some ten books on biblical topics translated into a dozen languages.