Theology for Skeptics: Reflections on God

by Joyce L. Irwin, Dorothee Soelle

Overview

Here one of the most widely read theologians of our time returns to the most basic question of all: God. Yet she does so with a twist. Soelle's work invites the reader on a personal quest for a new, world-embracing notion of God, one that can counter the gravitational pull of first-world people's political apathy, material acquisitiveness, and spiritual numbness.

In these nine short chapters, Soelle seeks to leverage our incipient desire for social, political, and gender justice into commitment to God's justice. The question of God becomes, then, not an argument or even a summons but a deeper engagement with life itself and its central mysteries.

One of Soelle's most beautiful books, Theology for Skeptics is a brave confession and an engaged meditation on the central themes of religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800627881
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	02/01/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Dorothee Soelle was Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, for thirteen years. Among her many influential writings are Great Couples of the Bible (2005; 0-8006-3831-X), Theology for Skeptics (1994; 0-8006-2788-1), and The Silent Cry (2001; 0- 8006-3266-4). She died in 2003.

Table of Contents

Speaking of God

Images of God

Names of God

The Unknown God

God's Pain and Ours

Christ, the Man for Others

Cross and Resurrection

Loving God

Trusting God