Description for God Suffers for Us
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 420.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing in his cell in a Nazi prison, expressed a most remarkable idea. "Men go to God in His need. " This is the insight, he observed, which distinguishes the Christian faith from all other religions. It is a universal belief that God, or the gods, should come to help man in his mortal, human need. But this is not the God and Father of Jesus Christ. Even as Jesus in Gethsemane chided his disciples for their sloth in not keeping watch with him during his agony, so God the Father must look to His creatures for their ... Read more
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing in his cell in a Nazi prison, expressed a most remarkable idea. "Men go to God in His need. " This is the insight, he observed, which distinguishes the Christian faith from all other religions. It is a universal belief that God, or the gods, should come to help man in his mortal, human need. But this is not the God and Father of Jesus Christ. Even as Jesus in Gethsemane chided his disciples for their sloth in not keeping watch with him during his agony, so God the Father must look to His creatures for their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789024716142
SKU
V9789024716142
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99-15
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