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PhD work from Wales where I cited famous German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who had some useful quotes for my work in regard to the problem of suffering.
Happy New Year
Holy
Spirit
Lutheran
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1937)(1963) explains the Holy Spirit brings Christ to each
and every member of the Church and Christ has a presence in the Church through
the Holy Spirit.[1] The Spirit creates fellowship,[2]
and God lives through his people.[3] This would be in agreement with traditional
Christian and Reformed views.
Suffering
and Compassion
He
writes that suffering and rejection sum up the cross of Christ.[4] This was part of God’s essential plan.[5] God’s compassion for humanity suffering under
the problem of evil is shown as God incarnate Jesus Christ, suffers for the
sins of humankind as the crucified God.[6] God is not uncaring as God the Son was placed
within the problem of evil in order to overcome it.[7] The non-empirical nature of the theological
divine compassion concept,[8]
would be met disagreeably by many atheists.[9] They could argue that it would be difficult
to show God has compassion for persons since he cannot be shown to be
empirically doing anything for humanity.[10] Bonhoeffer deduces that Christ transforms the
mortal agony of his martyrs by granting them peace in his assured presence.[11] This type of sacrifice, to Bonhoeffer, is how
those who follow Christ overcome suffering as Christ did.[12] He writes suffering, along with rejection
‘sum up the whole cross of Jesus’ as he died on the cross, Christ faced human
rejection.[13]
BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH (1931)(1996)
Act and Being, Translated from the
German Edition, Hans-Richard Reuter (ed.), English Edition, Wayne Whitson
Floyd, Jr., (ed.), Translated by H. Martin Rumscheidt, Fortress Press,
Minneapolis.
BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH (1937)(1963)
The Cost of Discipleship, Collier
Books, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York.
FLEW, ANTONY (1955) ‘Divine
Omnipotence and Human Freedom’, in Antony Flew and A. MacIntrye (eds.), New Essays in Philosophical Theology,
London, SCM, in Paul Edwards and Arthur Pap (eds.), A Modern Introduction To Philosophy, New York, The Free Press.
FLEW, ANTONY (1955) ‘Theology and
Falsification’, in Antony Flew and A. MacIntrye (eds.), New Essays in Philosophical Theology, London, SCM, in Paul Edwards
and Arthur Pap (eds.), A Modern
Introduction To Philosophy, New York, The Free Press.
FLEW, ANTONY (1983)(1996) ‘The
Falsification Challenge’, in Antony Flew and A. MacIntrye (eds.), New Essays in Philosophical Theology, in
Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger (eds.),
Philosophy of Religion, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
FLEW, ANTONY, R.M. HARE, AND
BASIL MITCHELL (1996) ‘The Debate on the Rationality of Religious Belief’, in
L.P. Pojman (ed.), Philosophy, The Quest
for Truth, New York, Wadsworth Publishing Company.
FLEW, ANTONY AND A.MACINTRYE
(1999) ‘Philosophy of Religion’, in Alan Richardson and John Bowden (eds.), A
New Dictionary of Christian Theology, Kent, SCM Press Ltd.
MOLTMANN, JÜRGEN (1993) The Crucified God, Minneapolis, Fortress
Press.
MOLTMANN, JÜRGEN (1999)
‘Perseverance’, in Alan Richardson and John Bowden (eds.), New Dictionary of Christian Theology, Kent, SCM Press Ltd.
VAN DER VEN, JOHANNES (1993) Practical Theology, Translated by
Barbara Schultz, AC Kampen, Netherlands, Kok Pharos Publishing House.
VAN DER VEN, JOHANNES (1998) God Reinvented?, Leiden, Brill.
VAN DER VEN, JOHANNES (2005)
‘Theodicy Items and Scheme’, in a
personal email from Johannes van der Ven, Nijmegen, Radboud University,
Nijmegen.
VAN DER VEN, JOHANNES (2006a)
‘Dates of Nijmegen authors’, in a
personal email from Johannes van der Ven, Nijmegen, Radboud University,
Nijmegen.
VAN DER VEN, JOHANNES (2006b)
‘Symbols versus Models’, in a personal
email from Johannes van der Ven, Nijmegen, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
VAN DER VEN, JOHANNES, PAUL
VERMEER, AND ERIC VOSSEN (1996) ‘Learning Theodicy’, in Journal of Empirical Theology, Volume 9, pp. 67-85. Kampen, The
Netherlands, Journal of Empirical Theology.
VAN DER VEN, JOHANNES AND ERIC
VOSSEN (1996) Suffering: Why for God’s
Sake? Grand Rapids, Eerdmans.
