Created for Joy A Christian View of Suffering

Name: Created for Joy A Christian View of Suffering
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ISBN: 9780824525668

ISBN-10: 0824525663

ISBN-13: 9780824525668

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sidney Callahan

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In the face of suffering, is it possible to believe in God? In this heartfelt and thoughtful new book, revered Catholic columnist Sidney Callahan answers yes, offering a reflection on suffering from a Christian perspective. Taking on C.S. Lewis and other traditional writers, she introduces the reader to new insights from fields such as the psychology of human emotion and evolutionary biology. Drawing from her own harrowing experience of a mother's loss, she shows that Christians view suffering in a different way, with the expectation - in the face of all evidence to the contrary - that we are created to experience joy.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company, The
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English




Suffering


Suffering as a Mystery


Suffering Defined and Described


Suffering Inflicted by Others


Self-Inflicted or Blameworthy Suffering


Torture as the Ultimate Suffering


Numbness and Affliction


Empathy and Suffering


The Uniqueness of Empathetic Suffering


Joy and Suffering



The Plan?


Popular Assumptions about Suffering in God's Plan


Cultural Views of God-Sent Suffering and Death


Catastrophic Collective Punishments from God?


Unsolved Contradictions



God and Creation


God Is Dead and Gone?


God's Love


Power


Secular Notes on Power


God's Love and Power in the Creation


Does God Suffer with Us?



Jesus Saves


Glad Tidings of Salvation in and through Jesus Christ


Christ's Fully Human Life


Jesus the Man of Joy



Jesus the Man of Sorrows


Jesus and Human Suffering


The Suffering of Jesus


The Risen Jesus and Suffering


Sharing in the Sufferings of Christ


Joy and Suffering Together



Suffering in Practice


The Problem of Glorifying Suffering


The Works of Mercy


Taking Up the Cross


Suffering as Creative?


Healing the Stigma of Victims


Jesus Prince of Peace


Rejoice Always



Joy


Sketching a Map of Joy


The Role of Positive Emotions


Joy and Altruism


Individual Differences


Distortions and Abuses of Joy


God and Joy



Prayer, Joy, and Suffering


What Is Prayer?


Prayers of Petition


Unanswered Prayers of Petition


Answered Prayers of Petition



The Life to Come


Suffering, Joy, and the Life to Come


Joy


Notes


Bibliography


Index