| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xix, 167 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part I. Reclaiming Lament in Christian Prayer and Proclamation: -- 1. Recovering lamentation as a practice in the church / Nancy J. Duff -- 2. Heaven's prisoners: the lament as Christian prayer / Patrick D. Miller -- 3. When lament shapes the sermon / Sally A. Brown -- 4. The shepherd's song: a sermon / Nancy Lammers Gross -- Part II. Loss and Lament, Human and Divine: -- 5. The persistence of the wounds / C. Clifton Black -- 6. Rending the curtain: lament as an act of vulnerable aggression / Robert C. Dykstra -- 7. Nervous laughter: lament, death anxiety, and humor / Donald Capps -- 8. Jesus' cry, God's cry, and ours / William Stacy Johnson -- 9. May we trust God and (still) lament?: Can we lament and (still) trust God? / Ellen T. Charry -- Part III. Reclaiming the Public Voice of Lament: -- 10. When feeling like a motherless child / Peter J. Paris -- 11. Woes of captive women: from lament to defiance in times of war / Luis N. Rivera-Pagán -- 12. 4 Ezra's lament: the anatomy of grief / Richard K. Fenn -- 13. Breaking point: a sermon / Brian K. Blount -- Conclusion: -- 14. Till God speaks light: devotional reflections on lamentation with verse / Charles L. Bartow. |
| Subject |
Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Laments -- United States.
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Laments. |
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United States. |
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Mourning customs -- United States.
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Mourning customs. |
| Added Author |
Brown, Sally A. (Sally Ann), editor.
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Miller, Patrick D., editor.
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| ISBN |
0664227503 (alkaline paper) |
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9780664227500 (alkaline paper) |
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