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Evil and the Cross: An Analytical Look at the Problem of Pain
Henri Blocher

Kregel Publications, 2005

A world renowned author and scholar grapples with the problem of evil in a world supposedly ruled by a God who is all-loving and all-powerful. (20070301)

Original Sin: Illuminating the Riddle (New Studies in Biblical Theology)

2 reviews
Henri Blocher

IVP Academic, 2001

Challenging and thought provoking look at an old idea
Friends who attended the lectures from which this book was written recommended it to me, and I'm glad they did. Original sin is and, as Blocher points out, has long been a controversial part of church teaching. While we might recognise that many evil deeds take place in our world, we are often reticent to label people as sinful from birth. If we are to do that, the way in which our sinful ...

Tolerance and Truth: The Spirit of the Age or the Spirit of God? (Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference Papers)
Colin E. Gunton, Stephen Williams, ...

Rutherford House, 2007

Evil and the Cross
Henri Blocher, David G. Preston

Regent College Publishing, 2003

Explaining and evaluating approaches to the problem of evil that have been hammered out by generations of scholars, Henri Blocher finds none that satisfies except the divine action of Christ on the cross.

Songs of the Servant: Isaiah's good news
Henri Blocher

Regent College Publishing, 2005

"He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." As part of the last of four great poems known as the "Servant Songs," these familiar words were first uttered by a lonely prophet to Jewish exiles in mighty Babylon: to folk who were convinced that their tiny, storm-tossed nation had been forgotten by its God. To them Isaiah brings a message of hope, telling of a mysterious "Servant of the Lord" who suffers ...

In the Beginning: The Opening Chapters of Genesis

2 reviews
Henri Blocher, David G. Preston

InterVarsity Press, 1984

Relevant to Bible-and-science issues, but also to far more.
When I was single and about to leave college some 15 years ago, a semester-long private study of this book and the book of Genesis itself filled me with a new sense of meaning concerning my existence as a man in this world. Blocher argues on the basis of the elaborate literary structure of Gen. 1:1-2:3 that the original readers would have read it figuratively. The 7 days of creation ...

Always Reforming: Explorations in Systematic Theology

1 review
Gerald Bray, Stephen Williams, ...

IVP Academic, 2007

The Blessedness Of Theological Deliberations
I recommend it in all confidence. Flawless theology. The authors, wise theologians in the Reformed tradition, have surely touched on an epistemological truth: they should always seek to uphold the normative nature of truth, yet as theologians, they need to be able to explore and develop Reformed assertions within parameters respectful of their commitment to Reformational principles. To this ...