A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament

Kulit Depan
NavPress, 2005 - 208 halaman
The path of sovereign sorrow -- A difficult hope -- Wilderness worth-ship -- Lost in a green desert -- The danger of defiance -- New light on an incomplete equation -- A new and truer worship -- The frustrated lamenter -- The exhausted mystic -- Hunger-born songs of intimacy -- A life fashioned for lament -- Enemies and "the poison we drink"--Disease and death -- No hope but this : contrition -- A difficult hope -- Dark, familiar echoes -- Torn between two loves -- Lamentations : the destruction of Jeremiah -- Truth held together -- Hesed in-fleshed -- God's presence "with us" -- The God-forsaken God -- The lost language of lament

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Perihal pengarang (2005)

MICHAEL CARD is an award-winning musician, performing artist, and songwriter. His many songs include "El Shaddai" and "Immanuel." He has also written numerous books, including A Violent Grace, The Parable of Joy, and A Fragile Stone. A graduate of Western Kentucky University with a bachelor's and a master's degree in biblical studies, Card is currently at work on a Ph.D. in classical literature. Michael lives in Tennessee with his wife and four children.

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