Peter McCarthy

Evil, Suffering, and God

Theology

“This little book is not a systematic treatise on evil, suffering, and God. What it hopes to achieve is to offer Christians today an approach that really helps, that helps us all to remain—even in great difficulties and circumstances—beacons of hope and sacraments of love. What is more urgently needed today in our faith communities is to, in Deacon Cummings’s words, cultivate a hopeful and trusting spirituality through careful thinking and praying, using the many rich traditions that have come down to us. This book brought me a deep sense of gratitude. Through his many decades as a teacher of theology and pastoral minister, the author offers us a theological approach that really helps!”

How Great Thou Art!

Theology

“While following the author’s creative focus through so many theological and ecological sources in this work, I was reminded of Soren Kierkegaard’s remark that the sign of a true artist is not so much the creative flights of genius but how solidly, how tenderly, he returns to touch the earth. In Owen Cummings’s book, we are brought prayerfully and tenderly to the One ‘in the within of all things in the universe.’”