The Both/And God: How Christianity Thrives on Paradox (Apology, Band 3) - Softcover

Tiger, Arthur A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6166294883 ISBN 13: 9786166294880

Verlag: His Story for Us, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Why do the hardest parts of Christianity make it true?

God dies on Friday and lives on Sunday. We find freedom through slavery. Joy emerges from suffering. The last become first. We die to live.

These aren't contradictions to be solved—they're the tensions that hold up the cathedral of faith.

In The Both/And God, theologian Arthur A. Tiger explores fifteen paradoxes that offend our logic but sustain our faith. Drawing from Scripture, church history, and decades of theological research, Tiger shows why Christianity's "impossibilities" aren't bugs but features—not weaknesses to overcome but the very source of its power.

This book is for:

• Those struggling with Christianity's apparent contradictions
• Believers tired of oversimplified faith
• Skeptics who find Christianity intellectually offensive
• Anyone seeking a faith robust enough for real life

Discover why:

• Doubt strengthens rather than threatens faith
• God's limitations reveal His true power
• The narrow path remains narrow for good reason
• Hell actually proves divine love
• Suffering produces what comfort never could

Neither liberal compromise nor fundamentalist rigidity, The Both/And God presents Christianity as it actually is: a faith built on unresolved tensions that create space for genuine encounter with the divine.

PART I: The Scandal of Faith and Doubt God dies every Friday. Faith requires atheism about false gods. Doubt as an essential element of belief.

PART II: The Scandal of Divine Weakness What God cannot do—and why that's good news. How power is perfected in weakness. Why the last shall be first.

PART III: The Paradox of Holiness and Sin The holy church of sinners. Loving sinners while hating sin. The narrow path that refuses to widen.

PART IV: The Mystery of Divine Sovereignty Election and responsibility in tension. Suffering as blessing. Hell as proof of love.

PART V: The Paradox of Christian Life Dying to live. Freedom through slavery. Joy in suffering.

Drawing from global Christianity, including the persecuted church in China, Iran, and beyond, Tiger reveals what Western Christianity has forgotten: the paradoxes we try to resolve are the very things that make faith real, powerful, and transformative.

What readers are discovering: "This book gave me permission to think and believe simultaneously." "Tiger doesn't resolve the tensions—he teaches you to live in them." "Finally, a Christianity that doesn't insult my intelligence or compromise the gospel."

Stop trying to solve Christianity's paradoxes. Start living in them.

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Arthur A. Tiger is a writer and theologian who explores the territory where faith meets science, philosophy, and the mysteries of human experience. At the heart of his work stands the apostle Paul - a figure he returns to again and again, reconstructing lost epistles, reimagining Paul's voice for today, and tracing the depths of his radical transformation. Beyond Pauline studies, Tiger writes across an unusually wide range: from astrobiology and cosmology to psychology, relationships, and cultural criticism - always searching for the connections that unite these disciplines rather than divide them. His own journey from skepticism to faith runs through everything he writes. Rather than offering easy answers, he invites readers to discover that honest questioning and genuine belief are not opposites but companions - and that every scientific discovery is not a challenge to faith but an invitation to see it more clearly.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: His Story for Us
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 6166294883
• ISBN 13: 9786166294880
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 241
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