In this Book
- Jeremiah: Pain and Promise
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
summary
Whether dealing with collective catastrophe or intimate trauma, recovering from emotional and physical hurt is hard. Kathleen O'Connor shows that although Jeremiah's emotionally wrought language can aggravate readers' memories of pain, it also documents the ways an ancient community-and the prophet personally-sought to restore their collapsed social world. Both prophet and book provide a traumatized community language to articulate disaster; move self-understanding from delusional security to identity as survivors; constitute individuals as responsible moral agents; portray God as equally afflicted by disaster; and invite a reconstruction of reality.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-13
- Chapter 1: Imagining Lives
- pp. 7-18
- Chapter 2: Hearts of Stone
- pp. 19-28
- Chapter 3: A Relentless Quest
- pp. 29-34
- Chapter 4: A Family Comes Undone
- pp. 35-46
- Chapter 7: Telling a Life
- pp. 69-80
- Chapter 8: Survive by Praying
- pp. 81-92
- Chapter 9: Encoding Catastrophe
- pp. 93-102
- Chapter 10: Rekindling Hope
- pp. 103-114
- Chapter 11: Running Out of Strength
- pp. 115-124
- Chapter 12: Confusion as Meaning-Making
- pp. 125-134
- Epilogue: A Work of Hope and Resilience
- pp. 135-138
- Abbreviations
- pp. 139-140
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 161-170
- Index of Scriptural Passages
- pp. 171-174
- Index of Names and Subjects
- pp. 175-179
Additional Information
ISBN
9781451412291
Related ISBN(s)
9780800699307
MARC Record
OCLC
826660171
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-07
Language
English
Open Access
No