Spiritual Complaint
Subtitle: The Theology and Practice of Lament
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
Published: Jul 29, 2013
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781610977432
Description: Personal and communal tragedies provoke intense emotions. In Scripture such emotions were given expression in complaints or laments. Such laments are the most frequent genre of psalm and are also found in the prophets and elsewhere in the Bible. The book of Lamentations is even named for this human response to tragedy. Yet neither lament nor complaint seems to be widely practiced in churches today, except at times of extreme communal catastrophe. Bringing together biblical scholars, liturgists, and practical theologians, this book begins to provide bridges between these worlds in order to enrich our ability to respond appropriately to personal and communal tragedy and to understand those responses.
Notes: Source title: Spiritual Complaint: The Theology and Practice of Lament