Living Through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness

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Baylor University Press, 2005 - 273 páginas

Pain disintegrates a person, fracturing self and relationships. In Living Through Pain Kristin M. Swenson charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain and surveys professional efforts to mitigate and manage it. Because the experience of pain involves all aspects of a person--body, mind, spirit, and community--Swenson consults an ancient resource for wisdom, perspective, and insight. Her close reading of selected psalms from the Hebrew Bible demonstrates that the challenge of living through pain is timeless. Swenson shows how these ancient texts offer a vocabulary and grammar for understanding and expressing the contemporary experience of pain. The psalms tell of suffering and healing. They decry pain's propensity to fracture even as they demonstrate a person's ability to mend. Pain is a universal experience, and this book invites readers to consider more fully what is involved in the process of healing.

 

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Contenido

Problems with Pain
15
The Hermeneutics of Pain
47
Pain and the Psalms Beyond the Medicine
69
On Whose Account This Pain
89
From Justified Pain to SelfJustification
111
Finally Darkness Psalm 88
139
Shared Treasure from a Lonely Journey
157
Moving Pain out of the Center Psalm 6
177
Meanwhile the World Goes On Psalm 102
197
Conclusion
217
Psalms Translations
231
Works Cited
259
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Living Through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Kristin M Swenson,Kristin M. Swenson
Sin vista previa disponible - 2011

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Acerca del autor (2005)

Kristin M. Swenson (Ph.D. Boston University) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloLiving Through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness
AutorKristin M. Swenson
EditorBaylor University Press, 2005
ISBN1932792155, 9781932792157
Largo273 páginas
  
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