Two books on suffering and faith. A remarkable book, Raymond Brown, Spirituality in Adversity. English Nonconformity in a Period of Repression, 1660-1668 (Paternoster, 2012). A lifetime's research and thought has gone into this book. In it Brown demonstrates the courage of those being persecuted, their faith, their worship and their perseverance in adversity. A magnificently scholarly and pastoral work.
The other is my own, Michael Parsons, Luther and Calvin on Grief and Lament. Biblical Text and Life-Experience (Edwin Mellen, forthcoming). In this I examine how these two pastor-theologians respond to their own and other's adversity and loss: their faith, their centering on Christ and grace, their trust in God the Father and their advice, too.
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