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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Theology of Suffering"”.
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A theology of suffering love : a critique of the fictional embodiments of divine compassion in the novels of George Eliot.
The unorthodox theology of nineteenth century British novelist George Eliot resulted not in a dispassionate avoidance of Christianity in her narratives but in an existential engagement with the faith she had once embraced. Prior to writing her first novel, Eliot, already recognized as a leading …
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Martyrdom as an impetus for divine retribution in the book of Revelation
… against the martyr's persecutors in the book of Revelation. The argument is made that Revelation portrays martyrdom as an impetus of Divine retribution against the persecutors of the martyrs. Chapter 1 traces the trend in recent scholarship to view Revelation's portrayal of martyrdom as …
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Glorying in a Thorn-Crowned Head: Divine (Im)passibility, Human Suffering, and the Paschal Ecclesiology of the Mystical Body.
Two distinct sets of Christian theological responses to human pain are canvassed especially significantly in late modernity, grounded respectively in immanent divine suffering, and in an ecclesiology which holds that baptism efficaciously engrafts its recipients into an ontologically substantial …
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Narrative Theodicy with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Karl Barth
… theoretical theodicies in the philosophy of religion and in some Christian theological thought. It is the contention of this thesis that theodicy done in this theoretical mode does more to harm than help actual sufferers. Therefore, rather than offering an abstract theoretical approach to …
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Works of Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England
<p>“Works of Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England,” argues for the crucial role of literature in shaping, expanding, and contesting the limits of compassion in early seventeenth century England. Reading Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Donne’s Devotions Upon …