Suffering and the Courage of God: Exploring How Grace & Suffering Meet
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557254281 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 150 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rather, Morris cites his own struggle with mental illness and the devastating stories of people to whom he has ministered to show that while God rarely makes all the pain disappear, God does bless sufferers in powerful and surprising ways. With some especially fine insights about Job, he argues for a universe in which human actions, randomness and God's sovereignty combine to determine events. . (Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly In this brief, satisfyingly pastoral volume, Morris, an Episcopal priest, reflects homiletically on suffering and the nature of both God and humanity. All rights reserved. This optimistic proposition, however, does not
Sue Zivi said A Gem of Sacred Wisdom on Suffering. I loved this gem of a comforting and instructive book that creatively links suffering with the courage and grace of God. Coping with both the small and large challenges of living are placed within an innovative framework of "suffering redemptively." This idea of embracing an. Wisdom For Confronting Any Challenge Lindsay N. Bowker I don't remember how I happened to come across this book but it came to me just before I was diagnosed with an advanced cancer. It's wisdom helped me find the courage to face and to defeat my illness. It's about the mystical and spirtual realities of deep suffering and the u. Finding Courage in the Goodness of God J. Tomaine As much as we might yearn for a different reality, truth is, there's suffering in life and plenty of it. Illness of body, mind or spirit, loss of loved ones, loss of job or meaning or friendships, disappointments and pain-all these and more can cause our hearts to ache, our
For people with a belief in God, the onset of suffering often throws one into an acute sense of a chasm between the divine and the human. Click here to listen to an interview with Robert Morris. At the heart of this invitation to participate in God's own life is God's gracious participation in our suffering. This innovative approach to reconciling human suffering and the nature of God focuses on how to look beyond easy answers, toward God's own suffering, moving from the position of victim to victor. As the recent tsunami disaster reveals, there is widespread discussion and disagreement about God's will and suffering - especially about what is traditionally called "natural evil." In most Christian teaching, God is transcendent, "above" the suffering, "beholding" it. Morris' own experience of chronic depression is a thread throughout the book, describing how one can move from meaningless suffering to suffering in a redemptive, healing way. According to Robert Morris, a pastor, spiritual director, and a chronic sufferer from depression, the biblical picture of God is radically different from this view. God may sympathize, help, empower, and save, but God isn't trapped in the midst of it like the rest of us. God's desire is to include us as participants in the divine life - to make us "partakers of the di