Unwelcome Good News - Paperback

by Andrew P. Porter (Author)

What if you wanted to treat all of life as good, in full view of its pains? It is not 'simply' that all of life is good, because its pains can clearly be overwhelming. But is it possible to find life good, including its hard and painful parts? How might one live that way? ---------------- This book is written so that rumors of God in his functional presence might not die out. It is written so that those who want to affirm life in full view of its pains and wrongs may do so with recognition and intention.

Author Biography

Andrew Porter is an adjunct instructor in the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, and an occasional consultant in physics at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

After a dissertation in computational physics at the University of California, Davis, he went on to complete a second doctorate in philosophical theology and hermeneutics in the Graduate Theological Union.

His theological interests are in H. Richard Niebuhr, Martin Heidegger, philosophy of religion, and the differences between history and nature.