God and the Victim Traumatic Intrusions on Grace and Freedom

Name: God and the Victim Traumatic Intrusions on Grace and Freedom
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ISBN: 9780195311099

ISBN-10: 0195311094

ISBN-13: 9780195311099

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jennifer Erin Beste

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Christian tradition holds that an individual's ability to respond to God's graceto love both God and neighboris not wholly vulnerable to earthly contingencies, such as victimization. Today, however, trauma theory insists that situations of overwhelming violence can permanently damage a person's capacity for responsive agency. For Christians, this theory raises the very troubling possibility that humans can inflict ultimate harm on each other, such that some individuals' eternal destiny can be determined not by themselves but by those who do great harm. Jennifer Beste addresses the challenges that contemporary trauma theory and feminist theory pose to deeply-held theological convictions…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/28/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Challenges of Interpersonal Harm for a Theology of Freedom and Grace



Karl Rahner's Theological Anthropology: The Role of Freedom and Grace in the Construction of the Human Self



The Vulnerable Self and Loss of Agency: Trauma Theory and the Challenge to a Rahnerian Theology of Freedom and Grace



The Fragmented Self and Constrained Agency: Feminist Theories as Correctives to a Rahnerian Anthropology



Response to the Challenge: Rahner's Theology Revisited



Ethical Directions: Implications of a Revised Theology of Freedom and Grace


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