"Godhead here in hiding" : incarnation and the history of human suffering / edited by Terrence Merrigan, Frederik Glorieux.

Papers presented at two events: the 5th Conference of the Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology, held in 2005 by the Research Unit Systematic Theology of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; and a lecture series held in 2007 by the Research Group "Christian Self-Understanding and Interreligious Dialogue."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

God's self-identification with the godforsaken : exegesis and theology / Richard Bauckham -- The salvific causality of the cry of abandon : a response to Richard Bauckham / Emmanuel Durand -- The cross over Bethlehem / Gerald O'Collins -- Jesus Christ : life as passion for the kingdom of God : a response to Gerald O'Collins / Roman A. Siebenrock -- The identity of the risen Jesus : finding Jesus Christ in the poor / Sarah Coakley -- Christ enfleshed and risen : a response to Sarah Coakley / Susan K. Roll -- Incarnation and suffering : on rereading Augustine / David Tracy -- Response to David Tracy's "Incarnation and suffering : on rereading Augustine" / Lieven Boeve -- Apathos epathen : patristic reflection on the problem of suffering, the cross, and the incarnation : response to a public crisis in the 4th century / Frances Young -- Divine apatheia in the early church : Gregory of Nyssa on the passionless generation of the Son : a response to Frances Young / Johan Leemans -- The mission of the church in Asia : living the incarnation in poverty and plurality / Luis Antonio G. Tagle -- Response to Bishop Chito Tagle / Eamonn Mulcahy -- God's Word to the world : Jesus and the Qurʼān, incarnation and recitation / Daniel A. Madigan -- Response to Daniel Madigan's "God's Word to the world : Jesus and the Qurʼān, incarnation and recitation" / Declan Marmion --

The aim of communion and the end of suffering : Christian faith and the dialogue of human need / S. Mark Heim -- Buddhist and Christian attitudes to suffering / Perry Schmidt-Leukel -- Suffering and human responsibility : a socio-ethical reflection from an Islamic perspective / Kemal Ataman -- Kenosis in the Letter of Paul to the Philippians : the way of the suffering Philippian community to salvation / Teresa Kuo-Yu Tsui -- Glorification through incarnation and humiliation in the Fourth Gospel / Gilbert Van Belle -- "Always carrying the dying of Jesus in the body" (2 Cor 4:10) : apostolic suffering as participation in the dying and the life of Jesus, and as an epiphany of God's power / Dominika A. Kurek-Chomycz -- Filius et filii Dei : the incarnational hermeneutics of John 1:13-14 / Joseph Pamplaniyil -- God's participation in human suffering in the early Christian theology of martyrdom / Paul L. Gavrilyuk -- Suffering, Eucharist and early Christologies : a study of the motive of saving efficacy of suffering in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch, the Martyrdom of Polycarp, and the Didache / Taras Khomych -- The hidden revelation of God : Brabantine mystics on the incarnation in the present / Rob Faesen --

Communion ecclesiology and the extra-Calvinisticum / Arie J. Griffioen -- Hegel's philosophical consciousness and the suffering of the Christ / Larry D. Harwood -- Baader on the incarnation : incentives for a sound Christology / Joris Geldhof -- Incarnation and suffering in late-modern Anglican theology : in search of an anthropological perspective / Christophe Moonen -- Volk und Wahrheit : a principle of incarnation in Heidegger's Nazi lectures / Tom Jacobs -- "Thinking towards God" by "thinking towards man" : Piet Schoonenberg's Christological thought in the line of the "nouvelle théologie" / Jürgen Mettepenningen -- The kenosis of God : Vattimo and Levinas on incarnation, "useless" suffering, and the secularization of history / Marie L. Baird -- "Stay with us--" (Luke 24:29), "Come, Lord Jesus" (Rev 22:20) : incarnation, eschatology, and theology's luxurious predicament / Anthony J. Godzieba -- Seeing good in a world of suffering : incarnation as God's transforming vision / Philip J. Rossi -- The hint half guessed, the gift half understood : incarnation at the intersection of divine communication and human poesis / Beáta Tóth -- On incarnation in the work of Slavoj Žižek / Frederiek Depoortere -- Morality and truth : incarnational versus non-incarnational theology / Frederik Glorieux.