Author : Reba Riley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 150112403X
Simultaneously published in St. Louis, Missouri by Chalice Press, 2015.
Author : John Sheveland
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2023-06-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781626985209
Offers constructive theological reflection in support of a victims-first approach to the clergy sex abuse crisis. The authors of this volume, both theologians and clinicians, articulate theological resources and communal behaviors and practices which empower all in the church to accompany victim-survivors and work toward healing.
Author : David W. Peters
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2016-09-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 081923303X
After traumatic events, many turn away from the Church; this book presents a path home, providing a way back to a God who can be trusted, loved, and worshipped. Today, the church is sometimes viewed (even from within) as a place apart, which may create a barrier of understanding for those who have experienced trauma. Post-Traumatic God grew out of Peters’ own experience as a chaplain in Iraq and later as an Episcopal priest, and from his subsequent work with an organization he founded, Episcopal Veterans for Peace, which helped him identify the need for this quite-different book to bridge that gap. In it, Peters explores three related themes: history (the early church itself was a post-traumatic community); theology (especially building on Tillich's World War I experiences and the theology he subsequently developed); and ecclesiology (how church can offer community to trauma survivors. Post-Traumatic God equips the Church to heal the unseen wounds of the soul.
Author : Jennifer Baldwin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 149829684X
The intention of Trauma Sensitive Theology is to help theologians, professors, clergy, spiritual care givers, and therapists speak well of God and faith without further wounding survivors of trauma. It explores the nature of traumatic exposure, response, processing, and recovery and its impact on constructive theology and pastoral leadership and care. Through the lenses of contemporary traumatology, somatics, and the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy, the text offers a framework for seeing trauma and its impact in the lives of individuals, communities, society, and within our own sacred texts. It argues that care of traumatic wounding must include all dimensions of the human person, including our spiritual practices, religious rituals and community participation, and theological thinking. As such, clergy and spiritual care professionals have an important role to play in the recovery of traumatic wounding and fostering of resiliency. This book explores how trauma-informed congregational leaders can facilitate resiliency and offers one way of thinking theologically in response to traumatizing abuses of relational power and our resources for restoration.
Author : Sheveland, John N.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608339823
"Clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse is addressed through theology, scripture, ethics, and psychology"--
Author : Paul Maxwell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1978704240
The Trauma of Doctrine is a theological investigation into the effects of abuse trauma upon the experience of Christian faith, the psychological mechanics of these effects, their resonances with Christian Scripture, and neglected research-informed strategies for cultivating post-traumatic resilience. Paul Maxwell examines the effect that the Calvinist belief can have upon the traumatized Christian who negatively internalizes its superlative doctrines of divine control and human moral corruption, and charts a way toward meaningful spiritual recovery.
Author : Shelly Rambo
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664235034
Rambo draws on contemporary studies in trauma to rethink a central claim of the Christian faith: that new life arises from death. Reexamining the narrative of the death and resurrection of Jesus from the middle day-liturgically named as Holy Saturday-she seeks a theology that addresses the experience of living in the aftermath of trauma. Through a reinterpretation of "remaining" in the Johannine Gospel, she proposes a new theology of the Spirit that challenges traditional conceptions of redemption. Offered, in its place, is a vision of the Spirit's witness from within the depths of human suffering to the persistence of divine love.
Author : Serene Jones
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664234100
This substantive collection of essays by Serene Jones 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; how violence can challenge theological understandings of grace; and even how the traumatic experience of Jesus' death is remembered. Of particular interest is Jones'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 are two deeply interrelated faith-claims that are central to Jones's understanding of Christian theology: first, we live in a world profoundly broken by violence; second, God loves this world and desires that suffering be met by words of hope, of love, and of grace. This truly cutting-edge book is the first trauma study to directly take into account theological issues.
Author : Heather Davediuk Gingrich
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830827129
Heather Davediuk Gingrich applies years of counseling experience to the sensitive task of treating complex traumatic stress disorder (CTSD). Writing for pastors and counselors who have not received training in complex trauma, Gingrich integrates current trauma therapy research with discussions of prayer and spiritual warfare.
Author : Karen O'Donnell
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334060931
The experience of reproductive loss raises a series of profoundly theological questions: how can God have a plan for my life? Why didn’t God answer my prayers? How can I have hope after such an experience? Who am I after such a loss? Sadly, these are questions that, along with reproductive loss, have largely been ignored in theology. Karen O’Donnell tackles these questions head on, drawing on her own experiences of repeated reproductive loss as she re-conceives theology from the perspective of the miscarrying person. Offering a fresh, original, and creative approach to theology, O’Donnell explores the complexity of the miscarrying body and its potential for theological revelation. She offers a re-conception of theologies of providence, prayer, hope, and the body as she reimagines theology out of these messy origins. This book is for those who have experiences such losses and those who minister to them. But it is also for all those who want to encounter a creative and imaginative approach to theology and the life of faith in our messy, complex world.
