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Publication Date: 17 Aug 2023 |
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Series: The Bible Speaks Today Old Testament |
Publisher: IVP |
Page Count: 176 |
Author: Christopher J. H. Wright |
ISBN-13: 9781783592753, 9781783596201, 9781789744415 |
The Message of Lamentations
Honest To God
Chris Wright explores The Message of Lamentations, part of the updated Bible Speaks Today series of Bible commentaries.
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Summary of The Message of Lamentations
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If we neglect this book, says Chris Wright, we miss the challenge and reward of wrestling with the massive theological issues that permeate it. How can suffering be endured alongside faith in an all-loving, good God? Even if these events are recognized and accepted as God's judgment, has not the flood of brutality and evil gone beyond all bounds? If anarchy, death and destruction stalk the land, can the centre of Israel's faith hold?
Wright shows that as Christian readers we must not, and cannot, isolate Lamentations from the rest of the Bible; and equally, that we should not read the rest of the Bible without Lamentations. We must still let it speak for itself, as a book for today.