The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective

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Fortress Press, 1 d’oct. 1984 - 224 pàgines
In this comprehensive and thought-provoking study, Terence Fretheim focuses on the theme of divine suffering, an aspect of our understanding of God which both the church and scholarship have neglected. Maintaining that "metaphors matter," Fretheim carefully examines the ruling and anthropomorphic metaphors of the Old Testament and discusses them in the context of current biblical-theological scholarship. His aim is to broaden our understanding of the God of the Old Testament by showing that "suffering belongs to the person and purpose of God".

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Introduction
1
God in Old Testament Theology
13
God and World Basic Perspectives
34
God and World Foreknowledge
45
God and World Presence and Power
60
God in Human Form
79
God Suffers Because
107
God Suffers With
127
God Suffers For
138
Prophet Theophany and the Suffering of God
149
Notes
167
Indexes
195
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Sobre l'autor (1984)

Terence E. Fretheim was an Old Testament scholar and the Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary. He published numerous books, including About the Bible: Short Answers to Big Questions (Augsburg, 1999) and The Bible as Word of God: In a Postmodern Era (Fortress, 1998).

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