God Suffers for Us: A Systematic Inquiry Into a Concept of Divine Passibility

by Jung Young Lee

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing in his cell in a Nazi prison, expressed a most remarkable idea. "Men go to God in His need. " This is the insight, he observed, which distinguishes the Christian faith from all other religions. It is a universal belief that God, or the gods, should come to help man in his mortal, human need. But this is not the God and Father of Jesus Christ. Even as Jesus in Gethsemane chided his disciples for their sloth in not keeping...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9024716144
• ISBN13: 9789024716142
• Release Date: October 1974
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"