Luther and Calvin on grief and lament
Subtitle: life-experience and biblical text
By: Michael Parsons ; with a foreword by David Cohen
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780773445390
Subjects: Grief; Views on lament; Views on grief; Christianity; Laments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 'This affliction which would certainly have overcome me' : introduction; title: 'This is more than suffering and dying : it is being buried and descending into hell' : grief expressed in letters; title: 'Wisdom ... is to knowe no more than it hath pleased God to shewe' : expounding Job's laments; title: 'The inner hurt of the soul ... being forsaken and rejected by God' : expounding the psalmists' lament; title: 'His sorrows ... render his labours useful to the people' : making sense of prophetic lament; title: 'One should not imagine that God ... can grieve' : Luther and Calvin on divine lament; title: 'Within certain bounds of piety ... without injury to God's honor' : Luther and Calvin on lament.