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As the recent tsunami disaster reveals, there is widespread discussion and disagreement about God&#39;s will and suffering - especially about what is traditionally called &#34;natural evil.&#34; In most Christian teaching, God is transcendent, &#34;above&#34; the suffering, &#34;beholding&#34; it. God may sympathize, help, empower, and save, but God isn&#39;t trapped in the midst of it like the rest of us. For people with a belief in God, the onset of suffering often throws one into an acute sense of a chasm between the divine and the human.<br><br> According to Robert Morris, a pastor, spiritual director, and a chronic sufferer from depression, the biblical picture of God is radically different from this view. God&#39;s desire is to <i>include</i> us as participants in the divine life - to make us &#34;partakers of the divine nature&#34; in all that that entails. At the heart of this invitation to participate in God&#39;s own life is God&#39;s gracious participation in our suffering.<br><br> This innovative approach to reconciling human suffering and the nature of God focuses on how to look beyond easy answers, toward God&#39;s own suffering, moving from the position of <i>victim</i> to <i>victor</i>. Morris&#39; own experience of chronic depression is a thread throughout the book, describing how one can move from meaningless suffering to suffering in a redemptive, healing way.<br><br><br><br> &#160;

Book by Morris Robert Corin