The LORD Who Listens

A Dogmatic Inquiry into God as Hearer

• Author(s): Charles C. Helmer IV,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 236
• ISBN_10: 9004693076
  ISBN_13: 9789004693074
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics , Philosophy / Epistemology , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... In The LORD Who Listens, Charles C. Helmer IV draws on Holy Scripture and the theology of Karl Barth to offer a theological intepretation of God's hearing. Prioritizing this neglected biblical theme, Helmer develops a theological grammar for speaking of God's hearing that maintains a strong creator-creature distinction and then proceeds to demonstrate the profound implications God's hearing has for the doctrines of anthropology, Christology and, thus, for understandings of the gospel.

In contrast to passibilist-liberationist strategies, God's hearing is argued to furnish existentially and theologically superior resources for those who cry out to be heard by God.