The Creative Suffering of God

The theme that God suffers with his world has become a familiar one in recent years, overturning centuries of belief in an impassible deity. This book both surveys recent thought about the suffering of God and proposes future directions for this important area of Christian theology. Fiddes discusses four trends of current thought--the "theology of the cross" in modern German theology as represented in the works of Barth, Moltmann, and Jüngel; American process theology; "the death of God" theology; and the rejection of the idea of divine passibility by modern followers of classical theism--while reflecting on the main theme of his study. The book affirms that God freely chooses to limit himself, to suffer change, to journey through time, and even to experience death while remaining the living God.

Author: Paul S. Fiddes
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 10/22/1992
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.44w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780198263470

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