The Suffering of God
Description
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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About the Author
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology.
Terence E. Fretheim is Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has published numerous books, including Hope in God in Times of Suffering (Fortress, 2006), About the Bible: Short Answers to Big Questions (Augsburg, 1999), and The Bible as Word of God in a Postmodern Era (Fortress, 1998). He splits his time between Park Ridge, Illinois and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
