{"product_id":"the-both-and-god-how-christianity-thrives-on-paradox","title":"The Both\/And God: How Christianity Thrives on Paradox","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eWhy do the hardest parts of Christianity make it true?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eGod dies on Friday and lives on Sunday. We find freedom through slavery. Joy emerges from suffering. The last become first. We die to live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThese aren't contradictions to be solved—they're the tensions that hold up the cathedral of faith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eThe Both\/And God\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e, theologian Arthur A. Tiger explores fifteen paradoxes that offend our logic but sustain our faith. Drawing from Scripture, church history, and decades of theological research, Tiger shows why Christianity's 'impossibilities' aren't bugs but features—not weaknesses to overcome but the very source of its power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eThis book is for:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; color: #0f1111; padding: 0px; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThose struggling with Christianity's apparent contradictions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eBelievers tired of oversimplified faith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eSkeptics who find Christianity intellectually offensive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eAnyone seeking a faith robust enough for real life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eDiscover why:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; color: #0f1111; padding: 0px; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eDoubt strengthens rather than threatens faith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eGod's limitations reveal His true power\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe narrow path remains narrow for good reason\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eHell actually proves divine love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eSuffering produces what comfort never could\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eNeither liberal compromise nor fundamentalist rigidity, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eThe Both\/And God\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e presents Christianity as it actually is: a faith built on unresolved tensions that create space for genuine encounter with the divine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003ePART I: The Scandal of Faith and Doubt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e God dies every Friday. Faith requires atheism about false gods. Doubt as an essential element of belief.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003ePART II: The Scandal of Divine Weakness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e What God cannot do—and why that's good news. How power is perfected in weakness. Why the last shall be first.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003ePART III: The Paradox of Holiness and Sin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e The holy church of sinners. Loving sinners while hating sin. The narrow path that refuses to widen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003ePART IV: The Mystery of Divine Sovereignty\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e Election and responsibility in tension. Suffering as blessing. Hell as proof of love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003ePART V: The Paradox of Christian Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e Dying to live. Freedom through slavery. Joy in suffering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eDrawing from global Christianity, including the persecuted church in China, Iran, and beyond, Tiger reveals what Western Christianity has forgotten: the paradoxes we try to resolve are the very things that make faith real, powerful, and transformative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eWhat readers are discovering:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e 'This book gave me permission to think and believe simultaneously.' 'Tiger doesn't resolve the tensions—he teaches you to live in them.' 'Finally, a Christianity that doesn't insult my intelligence or compromise the gospel.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eStop trying to solve Christianity's paradoxes. Start living in them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"His Story for Us","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":50574933000496,"sku":"9786166294880","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-both-and-god-how-christianity-thrives-on-paradox","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}