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God's Wrong is Most of All
Kenneth Cragg
其他書名
Divine Capacity
出版Sussex Academic Press, 2006
主題Religion / GeneralReligion / Christian Theology / GeneralReligion / Theology
ISBN18451915289781845191528
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=09HAwAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋'God' is a relational word involved in human mutuality. There is always a 'God and .' situation obtaining: 'God and the astronomers', 'God and the tsunami'. Then quickly a 'God but .' situation emerges and the 'wrong' with it. Shakespearean repartee ('God's wrong is most of all: if thou didst fear to break an oath with him', Richard III, Act IV, Scene 4), and from Macbeth and King Lear, may help us focus further the inherent discrepancies of approach. By long oath-taking tradition, we invoke God in verifying verity, putting perjury on the line. What then of this universal guarantor of truth who is, by the same token, for ever blameworthy? For can there be a deep costliness, a 'wrong-bearing', on the part of God vis-Ã -vis the human scene, with its cry for compassion, pardon and redemption? Christian faith has always believed there is and traces it in this gift of habitable earth and more surely, in the Cross of Christ. That Cross, it has been said, 'is the avowal and acceptance of divine responsibility'. This theological book explores the divine capacity for suffering, whether one suffers because of or on behalf of God.