Godhead Here in Hiding: Incarnation and the History of Human Suffering

By T Merrigan

The central tenet of Christian faith, namely, that God, through theincarnation, has immersed Godself in human history and undergone itsterrors, does not dispel the mystery of the world's pain and may indeedmake the mystery that much more profound. This volume examines both theimplications of the doctrine of incarnation for the understanding ofhuman suffering and the attempts to provide a theologically responsibleaccount of this article of faith. It combines biblical andsystematic-theological reflection with a thoroughgoing survey of thepanorama of responses to human suffering developed during the course ofChristian history, ranging from the early Christian martyrs, across themedieval mystical tradition and the Reformation, and into modernity.Moreover, it examines late- and postmodern attempts to come to termswith human suffering, by means of either retrievals, or thoroughgoingrevisions, of traditional theological conceptuality, and considersnon-Christian attempts to address the perennial problem of human painand death.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042922915
• ISBN13: 9789042922914
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 513 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.6"