Jeremiah: Pain and Promise

Jeremiah: Pain and Promise
ISBN-10
1451412290
ISBN-13
9781451412291
Series
Jeremiah
Category
Religion
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Fortress Press
Author
Kathleen M. O'Connor

Description

"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" -- Publisher description.

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