God in the Dark: Suffering and Desire in the Spiritual Life by Susan Pitchford,Alan Jones
By Susan Pitchford,Alan Jones
Contemporary Christianity is stricken with difficulties: First, our religious lifestyles is usually bland and lukewarm. Distracted and fragmented via our lives, and malnourished on traditional piety, we suppose out of contact with the God defined within the Bible as a eating fire." moment, we do not know the way to make feel of soreness, in particular the ache of non secular darkness and aridity. the reply to either one of those difficulties is passion.
In God within the Dark, Susan Pitchford explores the 2 faces of passion:desire, the mutual allure among the soul and God; and suffering, specially our confusion and grief once we locate ourselves in darkish areas. we frequently misread occasions of darkness, assuming we now have fabled and God has deserted us. Pitchford means that darkness isn't really a spot of abandonment yet a spot of intimacy and a distinct name to a deeper courting with the God who wants us. when we comprehend this, we can't need to worry the darkish, and while the evening closes in round us, we will adventure it as an embrace.
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