Volume 48, Issue 2

Abstract

Abstract

The author poses the question why and how people can be helped by the idea that God suffers with them. He argues that divine co-suffering, though it cannot give all pointless suffering a point and cannot solve the problem of theodicy, can comfort the suffer in two ways: (1) by reaffirming the sufferer’ human identity that is threatened by his suffering and (2) by transforming the suffering from something to be ashamed of into an unpleasand experience which nevertheless can lead to the establishing and deepening of divine-human fellowship.

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1994-04-01
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