The Suffering of Love: Christ's Descent Into the Hell of Human HopelessnessThe reader will find, within these pages, a unique and compelling blend of theology and literature, faith and sensibility, meditation and analysis; many of whose insights derive from such disparate sources as the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar and the artistry of Ingmar Bergman, Flannery O'Connor, and Elie Wiesel. |
Contents
Unique and Symptomatic Horror | 5 |
The End of Literature | 12 |
Toward an Absolute Atheism of Despair | 21 |
The Holocaust and Hell | 28 |
Seeing Wickedness | 38 |
Conclusion | 44 |
Wordless Descent | 51 |
Toward the Trinity as Absolute Foundation | 57 |
The Shame and Significance | 85 |
Extremity of Christs SelfEmptying | 91 |
Univocal Despair | 100 |
To the Ultimate of the Finite | 107 |
The Presence of Love Amid | 114 |
Imagery of HellFour Examples | 121 |
Bibliography | 163 |
The Contribution of Origen and the Question | 66 |
Other editions - View all
The Suffering of Love: Christ's Descent Into the Hell of Human Hopelessness Regis Martin Limited preview - 2007 |
The Suffering of Love: Christ's Descent Into the Hell of Human Hopelessness Regis Martin No preview available - 1995 |
The Suffering of Love: Christ's Descent Into the Hell of Human Hopelessness Regis Martin No preview available - 1995 |
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