The Wonder of the Cross: The God Who Uses Evil and Suffering to Destroy Evil and Suffering - Softcover

Shenk, Richard A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610978692 ISBN 13: 9781610978699

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2013

Synopsis

When considering and confronting the problem of evil, we may be asking the wrong question: Why is there evil in the world if God is good and powerful? It may be wrong because it smuggles in an unbiblical premise: God can and should use his coercive power to relieve suffering since he is both good and able. But what if coercive power does not work to accomplish God's goals? This book is an investigation into the possibility that the noncoercive power of the Cross must be at the center of this issue, and that the Cross could reform this question. We could ask, instead, How is God destroying evil and suffering-and why is he taking so long? The answer to this reframed question might be: He is using evil and suffering to destroy evil and suffering for His People; this is how long it takes. While not a "solution" to the problem of evil, could this help us learn to delight in God in a world in which evil and suffering seem at times so relentless?

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Shenk (PhD, University of Wales, Lampeter) is an Adjunct Professor at Bethlehem College and Seminary where he teaches theology and a pastor at Village Church (both in the vicinity of Minneapolis, Minnesota).

About this edition

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1610978692
• ISBN 13: 9781610978699
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344