Embodied Hope : A Theological Meditation On Pain And Suffering
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A Necessary Prelude
Part I: The Struggle
1. Hard Thoughts About God
2. Don’t Answer Why
3. Longing And Lament
4. Embracing Embodiment
5. Questions That Come With Pain
Part II: The Strangeness Of God
6. One With Us: Incarnation
7. One For Us: Cross
8. Risen And Remaining
Part III: Life Together
9. Faith, Hope, And Love
10. Confession And The Other
11. Faithful
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This book will make no attempt to defend God. . . . If you are looking for a book that boasts triumphantly of conquest over a great enemy, or gives a detached philosophical analysis that neatly solves an absorbing problem, this isn’t it. Too often the Christian attitude toward suffering is characterized by a detached academic appeal to God’s sovereignty, as if suffering were a game or a math problem. Or maybe we expect that since God is good, everything will just work out all right somehow. But where then is honest lament? Aren’t we shortchanging believers of the riches of the Christian teaching about suffering? In Embodied Hope Kelly Kapic invites us to consider the example of our Lord Jesus. Only because Jesus has taken on our embodied existence, suffered alongside us, died, and been raised again can we find any hope from the depths of our own dark valleys of pain. As we look to Jesus, we are invited to participate not only in his sufferings, but also in the church, which calls us out of isolation and into the encouragement and consolation of the communal life of Christ. Drawing on his own family’s experience with prolonged physical pain, Kapic reshapes our understanding of suffering into the image of Jesus, and brings us to a renewed understanding of-and participation in-our embodied hope.
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SKU (ISBN): 9780830851799
ISBN10: 0830851798
Kelly Kapic
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: June 2017
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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