Preaching God's Compassion

by Robert G. Hughes and Leroy H. Aden

Book Overview

This is a book about human suffering and the church's efforts to minister to those who are suffering. It uses the resources of contemporary pastoral care to understand situations of suffering. For the most part, however, it focuses on pastoral preaching, that is, on the oral proclamation of God's Word from the perspective of caring for or comforting people in need. While many books have been published on suffering and on pastoral preaching, few have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800635779
• ISBN13: 9780800635770
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Real Help In The Most Difficult of Pastoral Circumstances

Professors Aden and Hughes have successfully completed what few would have the courage to contemplate. Without blinking, they stared into the utter darkness of loss, illness, violence, fear and failure. Then, they applied the Gospel proclamation to each situation, thereby creating the possibility of hope in the midst of suffering.Unlike earlier expository preachers, their work is not overly historical. Unlike the American "positive" preachers, of the last two centuries, their work is well-grounded and theologically sound.What Professors Aden and Hughes have given us is a text that is relevant and profound. Any seminarian, deacon, elder, minister, pastor, priest, dean, or bishop who preaches to people in pain would benefit by keeping a copy of this book close at hand.