A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart

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 dis...See More