Christian Wiman is a poet of spiritual suffering in search of transfiguration. (firstthings.com)
It has sometimes been assumed that this theology, and the piety of humble submission to spiritual suffering that accompanies it, must have been so tormenting that it only added fuel to Luther's spiritual agony and his quest for a gracious God. (firstthings.com)
The qualitative distinction between physical suffering (of animals) and spiritual suffering (of humans) is not drawn out. (faith.org.uk)