A Cry of Absence
| Author | : Martin E. Marty |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2009-11-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781608991471 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1608991474 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Cry of Absence written by Martin E. Marty and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the Psalms and adding the distilled wisdom of years of study and writing, Martin Marty offers a meditation marked by insight, strength, and a sure, sober faith. Throughout A Cry of Absence, he pursues the metaphor of the "winter of the heart." Marty bases his concept of the wintry way to God on a passage from the theologian Karl Rahner, describing a "wintry sort of spirituality." It refers to movement toward faith that grapples with pain, uncertainty, evil, loss, and the mystery of death to discover "hope on the winter-fallow landscape."
