The Divine Embrace: Discovering the Reality of God's Love - Softcover

Rees, Christina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006281214 ISBN 13: 9780006281214

Publisher: Zondervan, 2000

Synopsis

Christina Rees takes an honest view of difficulties in believing in God - suffering, doubt, alienation and loneliness - and shows how Christ meets our need of a sense of personal identity, our desire for meaningful relationships and our search for fulfilment. Wherever we are on our spiritual journey, the message of God's compelling love is a message that will change our lives.

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Deep inside, many of us long for love and acceptance. We want to be loved unconditionally, but fear it is impossible. 'The Divine Embrace' looks at the experience of God in Christ and offers everyone a powerful way of find hope, joy and love.

Christina Rees takes an honest view of difficulties in believing in God – suffering, doubt, alienation and loneliness – and shows how Christ meets our need of a sense of personal identity, our desire for meaningful relationships and our search for fulfilment. Wherever we are on our spiritual journey, the message of God's compelling love is a message that will change our lives.

Christian faith is about a response to a loving God. 'The Divine Embrace' explores the nature of that response, which is ultimately beyond the realm if reasoned arguments.

Synopsis

Spirituality writer, Christina Rees, takes a personal look at the love of God in Christian belief. She considers aspects of Creation, the nature of the Trinity, and God's revealing of himself to people. She also explores the person of Jesus and the meaning and message of his life, death and resurrection. Many Western Christians, she says, have a problem with the concept of unconditional love. Christina Rees looks at the reasons for this. She also takes an honest view of difficulties in belief - suffering, doubt and alienation. Christian faith is about a response to a loving God. Writing out of her own experience, Christina Rees focuses on the nature of that response, which is ultimately beyond the realm of reasoned arguments, and offers a way of discovering hope, joy and love in one's own life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006281214
• ISBN 13: 9780006281214
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192