Chapter 13

See S. G. Tallentyre, Life of Voltaire, Vol. II, pp.25–27 and Voltaire by Colonel Hamley, pp.168–177.

Quoted by Leslie J. Tizard in Preaching, p.28.

Luke 13:16 and 4:35, 39; 2 Cor. 12:7; Acts 10:38.

E.g. Deut. 28:15ff.; 2 Kgs 5:27; Pss. 32:3–5; 38:1–8; Luke 1:20; John 5:14; 1 Cor. 11:30.

E.g. Luke 13:1–5; John 9:1–3.

Philip Yancey, Where is God When it Hurts?, p.23.

C. S. Lewis, Problem of Pain, p.77; Hugh Silvester, Arguing with God, p.32.

Hugh Silvester, Arguing with God, p.80.

C. S. Lewis, Problem of Pain, p.17.

Ibid., p.19.

John 11:4 and 9:3.

Joni Eareckson with Joe Musser, Joni, p.96. See also her second book A Step Further, in which she writes more about God’s sovereignty and his eternal purpose.

E.g. Heb. 4:15; 7:26.

Deut. 8:5; Prov. 3:11–12; Heb. 12:5–11; Rev. 3:19.

Ps. 66:10; Isa. 48:10; Zech. 13:9; 1 Pet. 1:6–7.

John 15:1–8. Cf. Isa. 5:1–7, especially v. 7, and Gal. 5:22–23, as evidence that the ‘fruit’ means righteous and Christlike character.

2 Cor. 12:7–10 and Hos. 1 – 3.

George D. Smith (ed.), Teaching of the Catholic Church, pp.1141–1146.

Paul Tournier, Creative Suffering, pp.1–5.

Isa. 42:1–4; perhaps 44:1–5; 49:1–6; 50:4–9; 52:13 – 53:12.

E.g. Matt. 5:10–12; John 15:18–21; Phil. 1:30; 1 Thess. 3:3; 1 Pet. 2:21; 4:12; 2 Tim. 3:12.

E.g. Mark 10:38; 2 Cor. 1:5; Phil. 3:10; 1 Pet. 4:13; 5:1.

E.g. Acts 14:22 (RSV); Rom. 8:17; 2 Tim. 2:11–12; 1 Pet. 4:13; 5:1, 9–10; Rev. 7:9, 14.

Eph. 1:4; Jude 24; Rom. 8:18; 2 Cor. 4:17; Rom. 8:28–29; 1 John 3:2.

C. S. Lewis, Problem of Pain, pp.32, 36.

John Poulton, Feast of Life, p.52.

Mark 13:8; Rom. 8:22.

P. Yancey, Where is God When it Hurts?, p.63.

Ignatius, Ad Polycarp 3. Cf. his Ad Eph. vii. 2.

Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses iii.16.6.

See e.g. Clement of Alexandria’s Stromateis v.11 and Origen’s Ezek. Hom. vi.6. A useful survey of patristic quotations and references is given by J. K. Mozley in his Impassibility of God. See also Suffering of the Impassible God by B. R. Brasnett.

Statements that God does not change his mind, his justice or his compassion may be found in Num. 23:19; 1 Sam. 15:29; Ezek. 18:25; and Mal. 3:6.

William Temple, Christus Veritas, p.269.

Vincent Tymms, quoted by J. K. Mozley, Impassibility of God, p.146.

Gen. 6:6–7; Judg. 10:16.

Jer. 31:20; 31:3; Isa. 49:15; Hos. 11:8.

Mark 3:5; John 11:35, 38; Luke 13:34–35; 19:41–44; Heb. 4:15. See also B. B. Warfield’s essay ‘The Emotional Life of our Lord’, reprinted from Biblical and Theological Studies (Scribners, 1912) in The Person and Work of Christ, ed. Samuel G. Craig, pp.93–145.

H. Wheeler Robinson, Suffering Human and Divine, p.176.

Jürgen Moltmann, Crucified God. See the whole section pp.222–230.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers, p.361.

Quoted from Walbert Bühlmann, Coming of the Third Church, p.125.

Rabbi Hugo Gryn first heard this story from an uncle of his who survived Buchenwald. It has been told by several Jewish authors, and also by Gerald Priestland in Case Against God, p.13.

Exod. 2:24; Isa. 63:9; Acts 9:4; Matt. 1:23; 25:34–40.

P. T. Forsyth, Justification of God, p.32.

Edward Shillito, Jesus of the Scars, published after World War I, and quoted by William Temple in his Readings in St John’s Gospel, pp.384–385.

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