Format:
Online-Ressource (390 p)
Edition:
0 ed
ISBN:
9781433127434
Series Statement:
American University Studies v.345
Content:
From the days of the early Church Christians have forged what has seemed to be a fitting kinship between their suffering and Christ's Passion. As a result, Christians are sometimes guided by the impression that simply believing hard enough - «Have faith!» - would somehow trickle down to change their hardship. However, having faith in God does not automatically translate into know-how or wisdom with suffering. Sadly, many of us seem to improvise by trial and error with one of life's most formative experiences. <BR〉 This book sets out to explore an ethic of suffering; that is, learning how to
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; General Introduction; Suffering "Demands to be Constantly Reconsidered""; Doctrine and Practice Estranged; Suffering and Humanity Estranged; Why an Ethic of Suffering?; Insights While Suffering; A Word on Methodology; Part One Theologians of the Cross; Chapter 1. Finding the Rough (Cross) Among the (Religious) Diamonds: Jürgen Moltmann's The Crucified God; Introduction: The Liberation of a Prisoner of War; The "Identity-Involvement Dilemma""; Epistemology, Revelation, and the Ego; Kenosis and the Cross that Contradicts; Accretions of the Cross
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CultusMysticism; Discipleship; A Theology of the Cross; Christology; The "Trials" of Jesus; The Consequences of a Theology of the Crucified Christ; Theism and the Theology of the Cross; The Cross and Psychological Liberation; The Cross and Political Liberation; Chapter Summary and Conclusions; The Cross Contradicts Religion; The Problem of "Moltmann's God" (Soelle); Why is God Silent?; Chapter 2. Learning to Talk: The Phenomenology of Dorothee Soelle's Suffering; Introduction: Hamburg and New York; Problems with the Individual-Social Distinction; Unconditioned Submission as Social Naiveté
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The Story of Abraham and Isaac: Three InterpretationsThe Pathology of Western Apathy; Language and Silence; The Three Phases of Suffering; Phase One: Accepting Suffering (What's in a Word?); Stoicism and Apathy's Version of Acceptance; The Upheaval of Mysticism's Version of Acceptance; Acceptance and Interpretations of Job's Testing; Phase Two: Learning and Speaking; Phase Three: Moving To Freedom; Chapter Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 3. The Psychological Theology of Cynthia Crysdale's Embracing Travail; Introduction: The Metaphor of Childbirth; Crucified and Crucifiers
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Applying a Psychological TheologyWe Are Victims and Perpetrators; The "Ethic of Risk""; Good, Evil, and God's Omnipotence; Redemption and Naming; Five Ways of Knowing; Silence; Received Knowledge; Subjective Knowledge; Procedural Knowing; Constructed Knowledge; Redeeming Redemption; Critiquing the Tradition; Alienation and Grace; Chapter Summary and Conclusions; Part Two Evil, Suffering, and God: A Primer; Introduction to Part Two; Chapter 4: What is Meant by Suffering? Looking Beneath a Touchstone; Introduction; The Difficulty of Defining the Experience; Dialects of Suffering
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Does the Sympathetic Distance Exist?Suffering or Pain?; Exploring the Differences; Progress as a Variable for Suffering; The "Delicate" Modern Identity; The Distinction Between "Is" and "Ought"; Chapter Conclusions; Chapter 5: The Evil of Suffering; Introduction: Why Evil?; Evil as the Background for Suffering; Metaphysical Underpinnings; Privatio Boni; Conventional Categories of Evil; The Conceptual Crisis of Evil at the Second World War; The Shift from Metaphysical Evil to Evil in History; Metaphysical Dualism; The Phenomenon of Projection; Self-deception; The Evil Personality
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The Banality of Evil
Additional Edition:
9781453913789
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Insights While Suffering : With a View to the Cross and Resurrection
Language:
English
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