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A Cry of Absence
Overview
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."
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- ISBN-13: 9781608991471
- ISBN-10: 1608991474
- Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
- Publish Date: November 2009
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 188
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