Vulnerable God - by Kenneth Tanner (Paperback)

About the Book

This rich exploration of the incarnation will inspire you to recapture your wonder and astonishment at what it means that God has become human and to discover how the humanity of Jesus transforms our lives today.

Book Synopsis

The mystery of God made flesh isn't just doctrine. It's an invitation to reimagine both God and ourselves.

In Vulnerable God, pastor and theologian Kenneth Tanner offers a rich meditation on the incarnation--what Christ's humanity reveals about the heart of God and how it transforms our lives today. Tracing the events of Jesus's life as told in the Bible and the rhythms of the church year, Tanner explores

- how vulnerability is not a flaw but the very glory of divine love;
- what it means to be fully human the way God is human; and
- how Jesus shows us God's true character through service, hiddenness, and surrender.

Full of poetic depth and pastoral warmth, this book is for those looking to recapture a gentler, more human faith rooted in humility and wonder. Including a foreword by Brian Zahnd, this thoughtful companion is ideal for seasons of reflection and rediscovery.

From the Back Cover

What the Incarnation Teaches Us About Being Fully Human

The mystery of God made flesh isn't just doctrine. It's an invitation to reimagine both God and ourselves.

In Vulnerable God, pastor and theologian Kenneth Tanner offers a rich meditation on the incarnation. Tracing the events of Jesus's life as told in the Bible and the rhythms of the church year, Tanner invites us to recapture our wonder that God has become human--to discover what Christ's vulnerability reveals about the heart of God and how the full humanity of Jesus transforms our lives.

"In this beautiful, radical, original book, you will be taken closer and closer to the heart of God. And Tanner will take you there in the only way possible: in and through the vulnerable heart and healing wounds of Jesus Christ. Accessible, mercifully free of jargon, and profoundly moving."
--Malcolm Guite, poet, priest, and life fellow of Girton College, Cambridge

"We've been handed a thousand images of a God made of cosmic power and heavenly distance. Tanner offers us something far more terrifying, scandalous, and beautiful: a God who chose to be held."
--Scott Erickson, author of Honest Advent and Say Yes

"Tanner describes a deeply hopeful possibility: that our ordinary human experience reveals not only our need for God but God himself, more like us than we dared hope."
--Mandy Smith, pastor and author of Confessions of an Amateur Saint

"We are given a beautiful and compelling vision of the humanity of Jesus, and in turn, we discover how his humanity reveals to us the very heart and divinity of God."
--Rich Villodas, lead pastor, New Life Fellowship; author of The Narrow Path