God of empowering love
Subtitle: a history and reconception of the theodicy conundrum
By: David P. Polk
Series: Theological explorations series -- volume 1; Theological explorations series -- v. 1.
Publisher: Process Century Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Anoka, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781940447148
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Theodicy; History of doctrines; Love; God (Christianity); Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Biblical expressions of God's powerful love. Witness to a living God : the Old Testament; title: Witness to a living God : the New Testament; title: Part II. The triumph of power over love. Encounters with the philosophers' God; title: The establishment of almighty God; title: Refinements of an omnipotent God; title: Rearrangings of a titanic God; title: The victory of a stoic God; title: Part III. The eventual collapse of the untenable. Musings on the mystics' God; title: Challenges to an unchanging God; title: Odes to a suffering God; title: Mourning over a dead God; title: Obituaries for a patriarchal God; title: Inklings of an impotent God; title: Breakthroughs to a loving God; title: Hunger for a liberating God; title: Overtures to a relational God; title: Part IV. The reunification of love with power. Glimpses of a revealed God; title: The love of an empowering God.