Faith at the edge : a book for doubters / Robert N. Wennberg.
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- ISBN: 9780802864734 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0802864732 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xxii, 160 p. ; 19 cm.
- Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Why there is an important difference between doubters, skeptics and seekers ... -- Why doubting and questioning differ ... -- Why truth matters ... -- Why doubt should be expected ... -- Why doubt hits hardest when it's first experienced ... -- Why a week with Mother Theresa might be better for the doubter than a week with C.S. Lewis -- Why it's important to have a theology of divine absence ... -- Why St. John of the Cross can give us a big assist ... -- Why Mother Theresa's dark night of the soul has much to teach us -- Why hope can be the basis for faith during hard times ... -- Why the Christian community is the best place to doubt ... -- Why unanswered prayer can be a problem ... -- Why it's important to come to terms with the fact that many people reject what you believe ... -- Why not all smart people reject what you believe ... -- Why Christians aren't always as good as non-Christians ... -- Why God doesn't make his presence more obvious ... -- Why wintry spiritual types can be profoundly spiritual ... -- Why concluding remarks do not come easily ... Why God is both our adversary and our ally. |
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Subject: | Hidden God. Faith. |
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Faith at the Edge : A Book for Doubters
Have you ever doubted your faith? Have you ever, deep down in your heart, doubted that God was really present in your life? Or wondered whether everything you believed in as a Christian was false? / Call it existential doubt. Call it "the dark night of the soul," as one Christian saint famously did. Whatever you call it, it's real. It is personal, it is painful, it is distressing, and it can last for years -- maybe even a lifetime. / You are not alone. Such crises of the soul have come upon saints throughout Christian history -- from John of the Cross in the sixteenth century to Mother Teresa in our own time. In fact, there may be something of this God-doubting in all of us. At some point in our Christian walk, most of us have traveled -- or will travel -- this dark path. / In Faith at the Edge Robert Wennberg draws from his own experience with doubt to address such troubling issues. But he also calls upon the wisdom and insight of such figures as Blaise Pascal, G. K. Chesterton, Simone Weil, C. S. Lewis, and Martin Marty. Laying out a theologically insightful account of what happens during doubt, Wennberg helps us understand how we can cope with these dark episodes and even profit from them spiritually.