Holy anger : Jacob, Job, Jesus /
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| Author / Creator: | Basset, Lytta. |
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| Uniform title: | Sainte colè€re. English |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Continuum, c2007. |
| Description: | 295 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6651484 |
| Summary: | The topic of this book is one of those greatly neglected areas that has cried out for serious analysis and exploration. We read today of rage in many manifestations- road rage, computer rage- but anger has its role in structuring faith. This is what this book is about and in the process it is also a brilliant exposition of anger in the Biblical accounts of Jacob, Job and Jesus.<br> <br> The Old Testament is in many ways an account of a running battle between God and man. 'Why do the wicked prosper' 'Ho, Assyria, the rod of my anger'. Job shakes his fist at heaven and complains angrily at God.<br> <br> 'It is certain' , writes the author 'that anger with all its different shades is an element in a living faith. Experience of anger constantly renewed structures our lives as believers as we become adult. The anger of Jesus encouragers us to welcome our own anger'. <br> <br> The God of this book is not an oxygen tank nor a funk hole. He is a Biblical God of astonishing pertinence to our lives today. Basset has a sovereign command of the biblical material, of early Christian commentaries on it and on Jewish interpretations of it. Here is a new vision of the relationship and the role that anger plays in it. |
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| Physical Description: | 295 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-295). |
| ISBN: | 0826480721 9780826480729 |
