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Chasing Mystery

by: Walsh, Carey

Chasing Mystery

by: Walsh, Carey

ISBN 13:
9780814680698
ISBN 10:
0814680690
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/15/2012
Publisher: Michael Glazier

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Why does God have to be so exasperatingly silent? Why can't we see him at least long enough to allay doubt? How does one grow deeper in love with God against the cultural currents of disdain and antagonism?

Where Did God Go?	p. 1
The Purpose of This Book	p. 4
Biblical Theology	p. 6
A Note on Absence	p. 9
Methodological Perspectives	p. 14
Deuteronomy's Choice	p. 18
In the Beginning	p. 20
Mystery and Modernity	p. 23
The Issue of Invisibility	p. 23
Modernity's Worldview	p. 25
The Numinous Mystery of the Divine	p. 30
Incomprehensibility and Hiddenness of God	p. 35
Holy Text and Revelation	p. 39
Access to the Bible	p. 39
Jacob Wrestles with the Angel	p. 42
Ask and Seek	p. 43
Losing Jesus in the Temple	p. 44
Wandering in the Desert	p. 45
A Hermeneutics of Trust	p. 49
Torah and the Agility of Faith	p. 57
Theophany	p. 57
The Burning Bush	p. 58
Mount Sinai	p. 63
The Guidance of a Cloud	p. 66
The Death of Moses	p. 74
Angels, Holy Sites, and Prophets	p. 75
Angels	p. 76
Holy Sites	p. 78
Prophets	p. 81
The Problem with Omnipotence	p. 85
The Contesting Theophanies of Wisdom	p. 86
The Power Theophany of Job	p. 87
Ecclesiastes' Search for the "Vanity of Vanities"	p. 91
From Vanity to Vapor	p. 93
The Dilemma of Suffering	p. 101
Job in Crisis	p. 101
Theodicy in Christian Tradition	p. 111
Varieties of Atheism	p. 114
Faith after Desolation	p. 120
Jesus	p. 123
God Made Visible	p. 123
The Father's Silence	p. 131
The Vanishing Jesus	p. 133
The Road to Emmaus	p. 138
Real Presence	p. 141
Remaining Present with God	p. 141
Empirical Bias	p. 143
Paradox of Faith	p. 144
Real Presence	p. 146
Bibliography	p. 151
Subject Index	p. 159
Scripture Index	p. 161
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Chasing Mystery

Chasing Mystery

9780814680698

0814680690

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