Publication at Catholic Theological Faculty |
2012
Abstract
Can God suffer? The article treats the Old Testament statements about a suffering God, set in the context of suffering as such in the biblical sense. For the expression of God’s acting biblical author uses various metaphors from an environment familiar to him.
Suffering in the biblical concept is always linked to sin. Statements about a suffering God are then, like the description of other emotions attributed to God, an expression of his relationship to people, culminating in the Incarnation of God’s Son.