Hope in an age of terror
By: Paul J. DaPonte.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Maryknoll, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781570758430
Subjects: Suffering; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Good and evil; Hope -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Description: "This theological reflection on evil and suffering, violence and revenge, and identity and otherness attempts to answer an urgent question of our time: "What are we to do now that they have done this to us? How should we respond to this injury, this evil?"" "The first part, titled with the metonym of September 10, situates the question of God and suffering within a long tradition of philosophical and theological reflection. After telling the story of the events of 9/11, the second part probes the relationship between violence and religion. Part 3, with the title of 9/12, draws on the writings of Miroslav Volf on reconciliation and the writings of John Zizioulas on a God of communion in order to construct a way in which Christians can live in hope, as God willed by creating us in God's image."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.