God in Pain: Teaching Sermons on Suffering (Teaching Sermons Series)

by Barbara Brown Taylor

Book Overview

Everyone understands human pain. But many Christians have difficulty comprehending God's pain, especially God's pain in the death of Christ. Is it atonement or child abuse? To speak of God in pain, says Barbara Brown Taylor, is not only to address the biblical stories of Christ's suffering and death, but also to proclaim the God who is present in our pain. This volume of teaching sermons on suffering presents different approaches to the problem of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0687058872
• ISBN13: 9780687058877
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Understandable Christianity

Even this old heathen, raised as a Unitarian, finds Barbara Brown Taylor's writings reasonable and useful. Her most important book for me is "The Luminescent Web", which is her correlation of faith with her attempt to understand the physical universe. However, her sermons focus on the human problems and a human's attempt to make sense of the troubles that affect all of us.

Provocative like all BBT sermons, but not always consistent

She goes where few preachers or theologians dare, and never, ever leaves the reader without plenty to think about. Of all her books, this one is the least satisfying in some ways because of what seem to me to be some inconsistencies on key points. Maybe that's to be expected given the subject matter. What she succeeds beautifully in doing is revealing how shallow and inadequate most Christian thinking is on the subject of the passion and death of Jesus. No pat answers from BBT, ever. Good for her, and good for those who read her and are prompted to go deeper into what Good Friday means.