Playing with Dragons: Living with Suffering and God - Softcover

Angel, Andrew R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620326477 ISBN 13: 9781620326473

Verlag: Cascade Books, 2014

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Description: There be dragons all over the Bible. From the great sea monsters of Genesis to the great dragon of Revelation, dragons appear as the Bible opens and closes, and they pop their grisly heads up at various junctures in between. How did they get there and what on earth (or indeed in heaven) are they doing there? This is a book for those who find standard discussions of faith and suffering frustrating. Andy Angel opens up the rich biblical tradition of living with God in the midst of suffering. He takes the reader on a journey of exploration through biblical texts that are often overlooked on account of their strangeness--texts about dragons. He shows how these peculiar passages open up a language of prayer through suffering in which people share their anger, weariness, disillusionment, and even joy in suffering with God. Angel explores how such ""weird"" Scriptures open up a whole new way of praying and reveal a God who approves of honest spirituality, a spirituality that the Bible holds open but too many of its interpreters do not.

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Andy Angel is an Anglican priest and the Vice Principal of St John's College, Nottingham. He is the author of Angels: Ancient Whispers of Another World (2012).

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• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1620326477
• ISBN 13: 9781620326473
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 138