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Trauma and Grace Theology in a Ruptured World

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ISBN-10: 0664234100

ISBN-13: 9780664234102

Edition: 2009

Authors: Serene Jones

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This substantive collection explores recent works in the field of trauma studies. Central to its overall theme is an investigation of the myriad ways both individual and collective violence affect one's capacity to remember, to act, and to love, and how those various circumstances potentially challenge theological understandings of how grace is experienced, and even how the traumatic experience of Jesus' death is remembered. Of particular interest is the author's focus on the long term effects of collective violence on abuse survivors, war veterans, and marginalized populations, and the discrete ways in which grace and redemption might be exhibited in each context.At the heart of each essay…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 10/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Serene Jones is President of Union Theological Seminary in New York. Prior to joining Union, she served as Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School for seventeen years. She is the author of several books, including Calvin and Rhetoric: Christian Doctrine and the Art of Eloquence and Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World, both published by WJK.

Introduction
Traumatic Faith
Trauma and Grace-Beginnings
9/11's Emmaus: Gracing the Disordered Theological Imagination
Soul Anatomy: The Healing Acts of Calvin's Psalms
Crucified Imaginings
The Alluring Cross
The Mirrored Cross
The Unending Cross
Ruptured Redeemings
Sin, Creativity, and the Christian Life: Rachel and Mary in Traumatic Embrace
Hope Deferred: Theological Reflections on Reproductive Loss
Mourning and Wonder
Notes