Suffering of God An Old Testament Perspective

In this comprehensive and thought-provoking study, Terence Fretheim focuses on the theme of divine suffering, an aspect of our understanding of God which both the church and scholarship have neglected. Maintaining that "metaphors matter," Fretheim carefully examines the ruling and anthropomorphic metaphors of the Old Testament and discusses them in the context of current biblical-theological scholarship. His aim is to broaden our understanding of the God of the Old Testament by showing that "suffering belongs to the person and purpose of God".Fretheim, Terence E. is the author of 'Suffering of God An Old Testament Perspective', published 1984 under ISBN 9780800615383 and ISBN 0800615387.