Author: Thomas Finch
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Keywords: path, suffering, god, finding, darkness, unmapped
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0802467504
ISBN-13: 9780802467508

Based on the Theology of Suffering course Finch teaches at Moody Bible Institute, this examination of the reality of evil and suffering in the world gives a framework to understand along with a pathway to cope with it. The author examines the reality of and causes of suffering, then points readers to the light of the Trinity, the Cross, God’s point of view, and finally, to how a  person experiences suffering. “Suffering points to the mystery of life itself. It does something to a person, it reduces their tolerance of superficiality,” writes Finch. Not a personal memoir so much as a trea

Author: Michael Davis
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: century, nineteenth, series, country, unmapped, psychology, eliot, george, exploring
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-11-11
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 075465172X
ISBN-13: 9780754651727

In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot’s writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive ways to propose a vision of mind as both fundamentally connected to the external world and radically isolated from and independent of that world. In showing the alignments between Eliot’s work and the formulations of such key thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, and G. H. Lewes, Davis reveals how Eliot responds