Why, God?

by Burton Z Cooper

Overview

This book is a sensitive inquiry for anyone who has ever suffered and who wants to think through it theologically. It is a compassionate resource for coming to grips with pain, suffering, and evil.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804207317
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	01/01/1988
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Burton Z. Cooper is Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

1.	"Why, God?" Waiting for an Answer	1
2.	On the Outer Edge of the Tradition	17
3.	Mining the Seams of the Bible	38
4.	God: Boundless Yet Limited	65
	A Philosophical Interlude	85
5.	The Christological Vision of God	97
	A Letter to the Church: Placing the Answer	124

Editorial Reviews

Written by a lay theologian, this addresses Christians who are dissatisfied with solutions to the problems of evil that emphasize God's sovereignty. Turning to biblical passages he believes are often overlooked, Cooper stresses instead God's vulnerability throughout history, and his identification with pain, culminating in Jesus's death on the cross. This is a sort of Christian restatement of themes popularized by Harold Kushner in When Bad Things Happen to Good People ( LJ 9/1/81). Stimulating liberal exegesis in a format suited to thoughtful lay readers. EC

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