Jeremiah pain and promise

"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; co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: O'Connor, Kathleen M., 1942- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Fortress Press [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45914904*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Imagining lives : historical context
  • Hearts of stone : disasters and their effects
  • A relentless quest for meaning : the Book of Jeremiah
  • A family comes undone : the metaphor of a broken family
  • Fragmented memories of trauma : the war poems
  • If only tears were possible : the weeping poems
  • Telling a life : biographical stories
  • Survive by praying : the confessions
  • Encoding catastrophe : the sermons
  • Rekindling hope : the little book of consolation
  • Running out of strength : endings
  • Confusion as meaning-making : the composition of the book.