Suffering in this world continues regardless of the season, though, so you could use this book to focus on the suffering of God whenever you like.

This book is based around seven chapters, representing the celebrated Seven Last Words of Jesus which have long been a popular devotion (even set to music by Haydn), but Dominiak has given these Seven Last Words an entirely original interpretation to make this perfect Lent reading. I would give the book 5 stars for the content, but I think it could do with some editing to make it a bit easier to read. As Dusk Falls includes playable situations related to intense violence, family conflict, mental health, suicide, and other mature themes. It invites us all to reflect in unconventional ways about our assumptions, suspicions, and beliefs through a conventional form of meditating upon Christ’s seven last sayings on the cross as he dies, placing each of those last sayings into conversation with reasons to doubt.

Stan has been a professor of Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University and in August 2023 was appointed as the inaugural Director of the Constructive Institute Asia Pacific in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, dedicated to working with media organisations, citizens and advocacy groups, faith-based organisations, thought leaders and political figures to improve the quality of public discourse. Since religious belief has not died away to be replaced by secularism, as it was once predicted to do, but continues to play a major global role, it feels timely to explore how we all might better learn to understand religious belief, and how religious belief might be chastened and refined by doubt. Sheryl draws her inspiration from the windswept high moors of the North Pennines and aims to capture the communication between the skies and the landscape.

In an age of uncertainty and suspicion, Paul Dominiak explores how each of the seven last words attends to doubt as the refining fire of faith, rather than as its enemy. Hegel means something like history only comes to understand itself at the end – much like we perhaps only understand the significance of our individual lives as we approach death. Romero makes contact with Vince and encourages him to locate a black book unwittingly stolen by the brothers.Each chapter considers one last word spoken on the Cross, unpacking why Christians should embrace suspicious doubt, and how a suspicious Christianity might challenge doubters.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The Lenten journey towards faith and true belief needs to take into account its counterpart - doubt. I hope people can enter the book with a sense of hospitality, openness, and charity to views that they may not ordinarily find themselves inclined to welcome at first. The genesis of the book was in my teaching on the Theology Tripos and in various discussion groups over the years at Trinity College and Jesus College.A more clear-sighted version of this is John Gray's Seven Types of Atheism, which explains why atheism doesn't really make sense. He came to the university after a high-profile journalistic career including six years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times.