Jeremiah
Pain And Promise
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2011
192 pages
978-1-4514-1229-1 (ISBN)
Description
Kathleen O'Connor shows that the intense emotional language of Jeremiah documents a community's effort to restore their collapsed social world. Both prophet and book provide language to articulate disaster; move self-understanding from delusional security to identity as survivors; constitute individuals as moral agents; and characterize God as suffering trauma along with the people.
More details
Other editions
Person
By Kathleen M. O'Connor
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Wounds without Words
- Chapter 1: Imagining Lives
- Chapter 2: Hearts of Stone
- Chapter 3: A Relentless Quest
- Chapter 4: A Family Comes Undone
- Chapter 5: Fragmented Memories of Trauma
- Chapter 6: If Only Tears Were Possible
- Chapter 7: Telling a Life
- Chapter 8: Survive by Praying
- Chapter 9: Encoding Catastrophe
- Chapter 10: Rekindling Hope
- Chapter 11: Running Out of Strength
- Chapter 12: Confusion as Meaning-Making
- Epilogue: A Work of Hope and Resilience
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Scriptural Passages
- Index of Names and Subjects
