The Art of Suffering and the Impact of Seventeenth-Century Anti-Providential Thought (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical ... in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780754615002
Subjects: Christian theology; Philosophy of religion; c 1600 to c 1700; History of doctrines; England; Religion - Theology; Suffering; Religion; Religious aspects; Providence and government of God; Christian Theology - Anthropology; Christianity - Theology - Anthropology; Theology, Doctrinal; General; 17th century; Christianity; History
First sentence: The phrase 'the art of suffering' is taken from a passage in Richard Baxter's The saints everlasting rest, where Baxter answers a complaint from a putative reader that it is intolerable to have to suffer at the hands of a fellow-saint: 'Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint, as well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou hast truly learned the art of suffering.'