A Cry of Absence

Beginning with the Psalms and adding the distilled wisdom of years of study and writing, Martin Marty offers a meditation marked by insight, strength, and a sure, sober faith. Throughout A Cry of Absence, he pursues the metaphor of the "winter of the heart." Marty bases his concept of the wintry way to God on a passage from the theologian Karl Rahner, describing a "wintry sort of spirituality." It refers to movement toward faith that grapples with pain, uncertainty, evil, loss, and the mystery of death to discover "hope on the winter-fallow landscape."

• | Author: Martin E. Marty
• | Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 188 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1608991474
• | ISBN-13: 9781608991471