Wrestling with God: Loving the God We Don't Understand - Softcover

White, James Emery

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9780830833634: Wrestling with God: Loving the God We Don't Understand

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ISBN 10: 0830833633 ISBN 13: 9780830833634

Publisher: IVP Books, 2008

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Recipient of a 2004 Award of Merit from Christianity Today! (Originally published as Embracing the Mysterious God.) We give ourselves to God and then struggle profoundly with the relationship. We are drawn in and then want to flee in fear. We move from faith to doubt, trust to confusion, intimacy to a feeling of abandonment. Coming to faith is like falling in love. It can be a head-over-heels rush to the altar or a slow acceptance that slips into a heartfelt embrace. Either way, eventually romance crashes headlong into reality. Often we make things worse either by feeling guilty about our struggles with doubt or by trying to dismiss them as unimportant or insignificant. We may even become resentful that God does not simply step in to clear up our confusion. When we find ourselves in any of these predicaments, the only way out is to face our uncertainties about God--deliberately and directly. In Wrestling with God James Emery White explores these struggles we all face--struggles of heart, soul, mind and strength. And struggles to love our neighbors as ourselves. Here you will find your tough questions about God addressed. Better still, you will find the way to renewed faith.

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About the Author:

James Emery White is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and president of Serious Times, a ministry which explores the intersection of faith and culture. He is also professor of theology and culture on the Charlotte campus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, for which he served as their fourth president. Dr. White holds M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from Southern Seminary, where he was awarded a Garrett Teaching Fellowship in both New Testament and theology. He has also done advanced university study at Vanderbilt University in American religious history, and continuing education at Oxford University in England.

James Emery White is the author of over a dozen books, including such Gold Medallion nominees as Serious Times and A Search for the Spiritual, Christianity Today Book of the Year award-winner Embracing the Mysterious God, as well as The Prayer God Longs For and Rethinking the Church. His most recent publications include The Da Vinci Question and A Mind for God. Collectively, his books have been translated into ten languages.

Review:

"Embracing the Mysterious God is relevant, fresh, honest and forthright. In this most readable book, James E. White wrestles with the mysteries of our great and majestic God with a remarkable sensitivity to the struggles and doubts of faithful Christ-followers and seekers as well. Those who read this book carefully and reflectively will indeed be drawn to embrace God faithfully and to love him fully with heart, soul, mind and strength." -- --David S. Dockery, seminary president and editor of Shaping a Christian Worldview

"James Emery White lays bare the tension points--doubt, confusion, resentment--that stifle true intimacy with God. By walking us through our deepest struggles to understand God, White is just the person to chip away at the wall separating us from our deepest desires to know and be known by God and each other." -- --Dr. John Maxwell, author, speaker and founder of The INJOY Group

"Wrestling with God is an anointed book. As I read, I felt constrained to stop frequently to think, to take notes, to reflect on my own spiritual journey and, finally, to thank God for such a rich feast of thought and insight." -- --Gordon MacDonald, author of Ordering Your Private World and Mid-Course Correction

. . .well-written and clear. . .White's book is a good, solid starting place for college students and others in the beginning stages of theosophical research. -- --Laurie J. Wolcott for The Christian Librarian, volume 49.1, 2006

. . The book's moving, well-crafted illustrations--from the faith wrestlings of a young Mother Teresa to a moving story from Corrie ten Boom's childhood--give color and depth to the discussion. Reflecting a breadth of knowledge, this book will appeal to more educated readers, yet its accessibility and brevity will give it a much wider audience." -- --Publishers Weekly (starred review) June 24, 2003

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