Download or read book Passion and Paradise written by J. Warren Smith and published by Herder & Herder. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God suffer, and can we be close to God when we suffer? Gregory of Nyssa, on the the three most influential theologians of the early Church, offers a vision of suffering as part of our progess to final union with God.