The Lord Who Listens: A Dogmatic Inquiry Into God as Hearer

In The LORD Who Listens, Charles C. Helmer IV draws on Holy Scripture and the theology of Karl Barth to offer a theological intepretation of God’s hearing. Prioritizing this neglected biblical theme, Helmer develops a theological grammar for speaking of God’s hearing that maintains a strong creator-creature distinction and then proceeds to demonstrate the profound implications God’s hearing has for the doctrines of anthropology, Christology and, thus, for understandings of the gospel.

In contrast to passibilist-liberationist strategies, God’s hearing is argued to furnish existentially and theologically superior resources for those who cry out to be heard by God.