{"title":"Peter Hooton","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Hooton explores profound themes within \u003cstrong\u003eReligion \u0026amp; Spirituality\u003c\/strong\u003e, offering thoughtful reflections on faith, divine presence, and the human experience of vulnerability. His work invites readers into a contemplative dialogue with theology that is both accessible and deeply insightful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough nuanced discussions and careful scholarship, Hooton’s writings challenge traditional perspectives, emphasising the intersection of spirituality and human emotion. Expect a thoughtful journey into the nature of divine compassion and the complexities of religious belief.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-theology-of-divine-vulnerability-by-peter-hooton-9781666955811","title":"A Theology of Divine Vulnerability","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Theology of Divine Vulnerability: The Silence that Gives Light\u003c\/em\u003e understands confidence in the idea of God to rest largely on three claims. The first is that God is responsible in some quite fundamental way for the existence of the universe—for the fact that there is anything at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second is that God’s own existence, and essential goodness, are not vitiated by the presence of evil in the world. And the third is that God knows we are here and shares fully, somehow, in the joys and pains of transient life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Hooton considers these claims on the whole sympathetically. He prefers—to traditional Christian views of God’s omnipotence—a more nuanced understanding of God’s power and draws on a rich plurality of voices to describe God as much more loving than wrathful, as persuasive rather than coercive, as more passible than impassible, and the Christian’s relationship with God as essentially a compassionate participation in the reality signified by the crucified and risen Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595723882732,"sku":"9781666955811","price":212.2,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781666955811-a-theology-of-divine-vulnerability.jpg?v=1777904974"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/peter-hooton.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}