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Lament, Death, and Destiny

Richard Hughes,Richard A. Hughes

Author : Richard Hughes,Richard A. Hughes
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0820470961

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Lament, a natural, healthy response to unfair suffering and death, has largely disappeared from modern life and thought. This book reaffirms ancient Greek and Hebrew conceptions of lament as a protest against death as fate. Richard A. Hughes finds lament to be basic in the Bible, and he traces the decline of lament, beginning with Plato's antifeminist critique and early Christian theodicy, through the church fathers and the Protestant reformers. He shows that lament was displaced by classical doctrines of providence but recaptured in the modern existentialist revolt against unjust suffering. Hughes discusses the need for lament in the present age of mass, catastrophic death.

The City Lament

Tamar M. Boyadjian

Author : Tamar M. Boyadjian
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501730863

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Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in the book of Lamentations, which mourns the destruction of Jerusalem; in Arabic, this genre is known as the ritha al-mudun. In The City Lament, Tamar M. Boyadjian traces the trajectory of the genre across the Mediterranean world during the period commonly referred to as the early Crusades (1095–1191), focusing on elegies and other expressions of loss that address the spiritual and strategic objective of those wars: Jerusalem. Through readings of city laments in English, French, Latin, Arabic, and Armenian literary traditions, Boyadjian challenges hegemonic and entrenched approaches to the study of medieval literature and the Crusades. The City Lament exposes significant literary intersections between Latin Christendom, the Islamic caliphates of the Middle East, and the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia, arguing for shared poetic and rhetorical modes. Reframing our understanding of literary sources produced across the medieval Mediterranean from an antagonistic, orientalist model to an analogous one, Boyadjian demonstrates how lamentations about the loss of Jerusalem, whether to Muslim or Christian forces, reveal fascinating parallels and rich, cross-cultural exchanges.

Reformation Letters

Michael Parsons

Author : Michael Parsons
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532656675

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Reformation Letters is a detailed look at John Calvin’s letters, which were mostly of a pastoral nature. These were letters that define the Reformation and demonstrate Calvin’s concerns, his strengths, and his weaknesses, against the background of his own time and contemporaries. Here we find Calvin on his own calling and exile from Geneva; Calvin on marriage—his own and others’; Calvin’s prefatory letter to Francis I of France; Calvin’s letter to Sadoleto on the nature of the Reformation; Calvin on Servetus and the reasons for his trial and execution for heresy; and Calvin’s letters to those facing death and persecution.

Evoking Lament

Eva Harasta,Brian Brock

Author : Eva Harasta,Brian Brock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567553843

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Evoking Lament by Eva Harasta,Brian Brock Pdf

Harasta and Brock show how lament seems to introduce notes of mistrust into an otherwise confident relationship with faith, God and His will. In prayer all experiences may be brought to God in openness and trust. Yet lament seems to introduce notes of mistrust into a relationship properly characterized by confident faith in God and His will. Sustained attention to lament presents a challenge to theological reflection in reminding it of the acuteness of the experience of suffering and evil. This volume suggests that a robust concept and practice of lament is an appropriate response to questions of evil and suffering in its refusal to close off questions that cannot and should not be closed. Lament takes place in the eye of the storm of theodicy, and when the distinct content of Christian lament is discovered here the question of theodicy is transformed. The first section reflects on the anthropological conditions of lament, describing it as a hermeneutic for negotiating adverse experiences that transcends the simple opposition of innocent suffering and guilt. The second section reflects on why and how lament has faded from modern theological thought that is over reliant on systematic accounts of evil and whose abstractions have drifted free of religious experience. The third section develops an understanding of trust that includes expressions of lament while not sanitizing its rawness. The final section inquires after the distinct Christian profile of lament. Lament, even as an experience of isolation, stands within the believing community and its traditions. Moreover, because Christian lament is based on Christ's passion and resurrection, Christ endorses and shapes the believers' lament as he shapes their praise.

A Widower's Lament

Ronald K. Rittgers

Author : Ronald K. Rittgers
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506424811

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Lament is essential to human thriving. It allows us to cope with significant loss, an inescapable feature of our mortal existence. Lament is the passionate outpouring of deep sorrow and grief over such loss, which helps us avoid being completely overcome by the strong emotions that come with it. Lament is cathartic and constructive. It is a necessary step in coming to terms with great loss and moving forward in life. Not to lament is not to live--or at least not to live very fully, deeply, or well. This book deals with one instance of Christian lament in the late Reformation by exploring the efforts of a talented yet little-known layman to cope with the death of his beloved wife. For the first time, it provides full access to the remarkable work of private devotion that he authored to express his lament. A work of haunting candor, impressive artistry, and searching faith, The Pious Meditations is an extraordinarily rare and valuable source that has received very little scholarly attention. It furnishes both fresh insight into life in the past and important resources for life in the present. Written in a period that knew no radical separation between the academy and the church, it was informed by the author's experience in both, and can continue to speak to both today.

Jesus Wept: The Significance of Jesus’ Laments in the New Testament

Rebekah Eklund

Author : Rebekah Eklund
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567656551

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Jesus Wept: The Significance of Jesus’ Laments in the New Testament by Rebekah Eklund Pdf

Lament does not seem to be a pervasive feature of the New Testament, particularly when viewed in relation to the Old Testament. A careful investigation of the New Testament, however, reveals that it thoroughly incorporates the pattern of Old Testament lament into its proclamation of the gospel, especially in the person of Jesus Christ as he both prays and embodies lament. As an act that fundamentally calls upon God to be faithful to God's promises to Israel and to the church, lament in the New Testament becomes a prayer of longing for God's kingdom, which has been inaugurated in the ministry and resurrection of Jesus, fully to come.

The Crucifixion of the Warrior God

Gregory A. Boyd

Author : Gregory A. Boyd
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 1487 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506420769

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The Crucifixion of the Warrior God by Gregory A. Boyd Pdf

A dramatic tension confronts every Christian believer and interpreter of Scripture: on the one hand, we encounter images of God commanding and engaging in horrendous violence: one the other hand, we encounter the non-violent teachings and example of Jesus, whose loving, self-sacrificial death and resurrection is held up as the supreme revelation of God’s character in the New Testament. How do we reconcile the tension between these seemingly disparate depictions? Are they even capable of reconciliation? Throughout Christian history, many different answers have been proposed, ranging from the long-rejected explanation that these contrasting depictions are of two entirely different ‘gods’ to recent social and cultural theories of metaphor and narrative representation. The Crucifixion of the Warrior God takes up this dramatic tension and the range of proposed answers in an epic constructive investigation. Over two volumes, renowned theologian and biblical scholar Gregory A. Boyd argues that we must take seriously the full range of Scripture as inspired, including its violent depictions of God. At the same time, we must take just as seriously the absolute centrality of the crucified and risen Christ as the supreme revelation of God. Developing a theological interpretation of Scripture that he labels a “cruciform hermeneutic,” Boyd demonstrates how Scripture’s violent images of God are completely reframed and their violence subverted when they are interpreted through the lens of the cross and resurrection. Indeed, when read through this lens, Boyd argues that these violent depictions can be shown to bear witness to the same self-sacrificial character of God that was supremely revealed on the cross.

Fruit for the Soul

Dennis Ngien

Author : Dennis Ngien
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506402895

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Given a life spent in scholarship and controversy, it is easy to forget how much energy Martin Luther devoted to helping the common person understand and take comfort from God’s word. This commitment extended to even the most challenging of biblical texts, and nowhere is this more apparent than Luther’s work on the lament Psalms. Difficult to understand, and perhaps even more difficult to implement in life and devotion, the lament Psalms played a key role in Luther’s thought. More importantly, the lament Psalms were for Luther an essential part of the Christian’s understanding of the life of faith. In this volume, Dennis Ngien helps contemporary readers engage Luther’s commentary on the lament Psalms. What Luther intended for the education and encouragement of everyday Christians, Ngien unpacks and illuminates for life in the twenty-first century. Introduced and commended by Robert Kolb, the volume will be appreciated by teacher and student alike.

Preaching on Social Suffering

Jeremy Kangsan Kim

Author : Jeremy Kangsan Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666743135

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In this book, Jeremy Kim criticizes current Korean and Asian American homiletical strategies for their lack of a theological point of view on social suffering. He argues that preachers must develop an alternative theological-homiletical viewpoint on social suffering, one that has pastoral and prophetic approaches. These two approaches offer people a refuge and a voice, not only in the church community but also in the larger social community. Thus, the author suggests that preachers adopt the biblical lament, highlighting its dual tasks of compassion (the pastoral dimension) and resistance (the prophetic dimension). The author, who is a non-Western Asian American preacher, also incorporates East Asian philosophical and hermeneutical research on ren, a positive element of Confucianism, into his argument. He applies this core concept of Confucianism to the preacher’s homiletical strategy toward social suffering. Thus, the author proposes that Korean preachers should recover ren, which contains sincere compassion for others as well as a voice of resistance that reveals unjust social structures as the cause of social suffering and expresses both within Uri (we), the community.

A Time for Sorrow

Donna Petter,Lindsay Wilson,Rhys Bezzant,Emmett Price

Author : Donna Petter,Lindsay Wilson,Rhys Bezzant,Emmett Price
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683072898

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A Time for Sorrow by Donna Petter,Lindsay Wilson,Rhys Bezzant,Emmett Price Pdf

Six scholars trace the role of lamentation in the Old and New Testaments in A Time for Sorrow: Recovering the Practice of Lament in the Life of the Church, reflecting on the theological significance of lament, affirming the ongoing relevance of lamentation in the life of the church, and exploring its biblical roots and application in church practice. In a church era dominated by positive thinking and slick, upbeat worship, even mentioning the word lamentation is apt to cause a dismissive, disinterested shrug. But Christians still suffer, and this suffering is left mute when the church fails to integrate biblical lament in contemporary church practice. A Time for Sorrow looks to address this by recovering the biblical practice of bringing our pain before God in an honest and faithful manner. In this multiauthor work, learn about the role of lamentation in the Old and New Testaments, reflect on the theological significance of lament, and finish with thoughts on lament and pastoral practice today.

Why O Lord?

David J Cohen

Author : David J Cohen
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780783031

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The book begins by exploring a number of signposts in psalms' scholarship which alert us to the value of psalms as a form of prayer. The particular focus is lament psalms, and their potential as a form of prayer for people engaging with distressing experiences in life. What follows, is a discussion of lament as a process and the areas of potential change for someone who uses these psalms for prayer. The final section of the book includes stories of several people who prayed some of these psalms over a period of time. It explores their responses and reflections in an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of praying psalms such as these. The book culminates with a chapter which invites the reader to pray some psalms of distress themselves with notes suggesting an appropriate ritual to follow and some ideas for further exploration. 'David J. Cohen's book, Why, O Lord?, provides a wonderful, comprehensive view of the psalms of lament. It is an encouragement to all Christian traditions to look with fresh eyes on the psalms as prayer, and particularly the psalms of lament, as our suffering, and the suffering of many in our world, needs the language to cry out to God in times of darkness. The psalms express every human emotion and use a strong confidence that we can cry out to God, and that God will hear our suffering, and that transformation is possible. Bringing the psalms of lament into ritual, so aptly described by Cohen, brings a new dimension to worship, both personal and communal. This book is an excellent academic and pastoral addition to our knowledge of the psalms.' Angela McCarthy, lecturer in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia: National President of the Australian Academy of Liturgy

Interpreting Old Testament Wisdom Literature

David G. Firth,Lindsay Wilson

Author : David G. Firth,Lindsay Wilson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830891122

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In popular perception, Wisdom literature is a "self-help" or "philosophy" section of the Old Testament library—the odd and interesting bits of canonical mortar between History and Prophets. Themes that are prominent elsewhere in the Old Testament receive only scant attention in the wisdom books. Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes focus on everyday life rather than on God's special dealings with the nation of Israel. But Old Testament scholarship has come to see the wisdom of the wise as reflecting an aspect of the Israelite worldview, not something totally foreign. The covenant beliefs are presupposed, even if rarely rising to the surface. Wisdom must be learned from parents, teachers, and friends, but it is ultimately a gift from God—not primarily intellectual but intensely practical. The issues addressed—justice, faith, wealth, suffering, meaning, sexuality—are highly relevant today. The focus of this volume is on both wisdom books and wisdom ideas. The first section surveys recent developments in the field of Old Testament wisdom, and the second section discusses some issues that have arisen in Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes, and examines the Song of Songs as a wisdom text. The final section explores wisdom in Ruth, in some Psalms, and in the broader field of Old Testament narrative (from Joshua to Esther), while also examining wisdom, biblical theology, the concept of retribution in wisdom, and the vexed issue of divine absence. The following contributors are featured: Christopher B. Ansberry Craig G. Bartholomew Lennart Boström Ros Clarke Katharine J. Dell David G. Firth Gregory Goswell Ernest C. Lucas Brittany N. Melton Simon Stocks Lindsay Wilson

Language of Ruin and Consumption

Juliane Prade-Weiss

Author : Juliane Prade-Weiss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501344206

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Language of Ruin and Consumption by Juliane Prade-Weiss Pdf

Laments and complaints are among the most ancient poetical forms and ubiquitous in everyday speech. Understanding plaintive language, however, is often prevented by the resentment and fear it evokes. Lamenting and complaining seems pointless, irreconcilable, and destructive. Language of Ruin and Consumption examines Freud's approaches to lamenting and complaining, the heart of psychoanalytic therapy and theory, and takes them as guidelines for reading key works of the modern canon. The re-negotiation of older--ritual, dramatic, and juridical--forms in Rilke, Wittgenstein, Scholem, Benjamin, and Kafka puts plaintive language in the center of modern individuality and expounds a fundamental dimension of language neglected in theory: reciprocity is at issue in plaintive language. Language of Ruin and Consumption advocates that a fruitful reception of psychoanalysis in criticism combines the discussion of psychoanalytical concepts with an adaptation of the hermeneutical principle ignored in most philosophical approaches to language, or relegated to mere rhetoric: speech is not only by someone and on something, but also addressed to someone.

Lament in Jewish Thought

Ilit Ferber,Paula Schwebel

Author : Ilit Ferber,Paula Schwebel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110395310

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Lament in Jewish Thought by Ilit Ferber,Paula Schwebel Pdf

Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the biblical Book of Lamentations, provides a unique lens for thinking about the relationships between destruction and renewal, mourning and remembrance, loss and redemption, expression and the inexpressible. This anthology features four texts by Gershom Scholem on lament, translated here for the first time into English. The volume also includes original essays by leading scholars, which interpret Scholem’s texts and situate them in relation to other Weimar-era Jewish thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka, and Paul Celan, who drew on the textual traditions of lament to respond to the destruction and upheavals of the early twentieth century. Also included are studies on the textual tradition of lament in Judaism, from biblical, rabbinic, and medieval lamentations to contemporary Yemenite women’s laments. This collection, unified by its strong thematic focus on lament, shows the fruitfulness of studying contemporary and modern texts alongside the traditional textual sources that informed them.

Theology in a Post-Traumatic Church

Sheveland, John N.

Author : Sheveland, John N.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608339822

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Theology in a Post-Traumatic Church by Sheveland, John N. Pdf

"Clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse is addressed through theology, scripture, ethics, and psychology"--

Lament Death And Destiny

Lament, Death, and Destiny by Richard Hughes,Richard A. Hughes Pdf

The City Lament by Tamar M. Boyadjian Pdf

Reformation Letters by Michael Parsons Pdf

Evoking Lament by Eva Harasta,Brian Brock Pdf

A Widower's Lament by Ronald K. Rittgers Pdf

Jesus Wept: The Significance of Jesus’ Laments in the New Testament by Rebekah Eklund Pdf

The Crucifixion of the Warrior God by Gregory A. Boyd Pdf

Fruit for the Soul by Dennis Ngien Pdf

Preaching on Social Suffering by Jeremy Kangsan Kim Pdf

A Time for Sorrow by Donna Petter,Lindsay Wilson,Rhys Bezzant,Emmett Price Pdf

Why O Lord? by David J Cohen Pdf

Interpreting Old Testament Wisdom Literature by David G. Firth,Lindsay Wilson Pdf

Language of Ruin and Consumption by Juliane Prade-Weiss Pdf

Lament in Jewish Thought by Ilit Ferber,Paula Schwebel Pdf

Theology in a Post-Traumatic Church by Sheveland, John N. Pdf

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