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A Dramatic Pentecostal/Charismatic Anti-Theodicy: Improvising on a Divine Performance of Lament

A Dramatic Pentecostal/Charismatic Anti-Theodicy: Improvising on a Divine Performance of Lament

Cheetham, David
Torr, Stephen

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General Christianity

Publisher Price: $52.00

ISBN10: 1498266541
ISBN13: 9781498266543
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: Nov 8 2013
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The response of Pentecostal and Charismatic churches to those suffering in their midst has generally been to seek the intervention of the Holy Spirit to bring about healing and transformation, or perhaps, education. But what happens when the suffering continues, it appears to be innocent and meaningless, and God seems to be absent? This study, drawing on Kevin Vanhoozer's dramatic approach to theology, argues that the way God calls us to perform as we seek to communicate with him amidst such situations is to lament, and to do so with the aid of the Holy Spirit. Rather than offering such an approach purely in opposition to the more triumphalistic responses common in Pentecostal/Charismatic theology and practice, this book seeks to show how a performance of lament is conducive to such theology and practice while acting as a much-needed corrective to certain aspects of it. What is provided here is therefore relevant reading for both scholars and pastors alike, particularly of Pentecostal/Charismatic church tradition, who grapple with the realities of suffering and the questions such realities produce.

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