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Is God to Blame? Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering

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ISBN-10: 0830823948

ISBN-13: 9780830823949

Edition: 2003

Authors: Gregory A. Boyd

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Is God to blame?This is often the question that comes to mind when we confront real suffering in our own lives or in the lives of those we love. Pastor Gregory A. Boyd helps us deal with this question honestly and biblically, while avoiding glib answers.Writing for ordinary Christians, Boyd wrestles with a variety of answers that have been offered by theologians and pastors in the past. He finds that a fully Christian approach must keep the person and work of Jesus Christ at the very center of what we say about human suffering and God's place in it. Yet this is often just what is missing and what makes so much talk about the subject seem inadequate and at times even misleading.What comes…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 9/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 211
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Gregory A. Boyd (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is a pastor at Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Previously a professor of theology at Bethel University, several of his many books include Letters from a Skeptic , Repenting of Religion , Myth of a Christian Nation , God at War, and Satan and the Problem of Evil .

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Did God Do This?
The Lie and the Truth
Evil and the Blueprint
Freedom and Risk
Complexity and War
Omnipotence and Two Variables
Prayer and Ambiguity
Life and Hope
Mercy and Hardening
Providence and Control
Epilogue
Notes
Scripture Index