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1666955817 rar A Theology of Divine Vulnerability: The Silence that Gives Light understands confidence in the idea of God to rest largely on three claims. The first is that God is responsible in some quite fundamental way for the existence of the universefor the fact that there is anything at all. The second is that Gods own existence, and essential goodness, are not vitiated by the presence of evil in the world. And the third is that God knows we are here and shares fully, somehow, in the joys and pains of transient life. Peter Hooton considers these claims on the whole sympathetically. He prefersto traditional Christian views of Gods omnipotencea more nuanced understanding of Gods power and draws on a rich plurality of voices to describe God as much more loving than wrathful, as persuasive rather than coercive, as more passible than impassible, and the Christians relationship with God as essentially a compassionate participation in the reality signified by the crucified and risen Christ. Read more