Why have you forsaken me?
Subtitle: a personal reflection on the experience of desolation
By: John E. Colwell
Edition: 1st US ed.
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781620322666
Subjects: Mental illness; Mentally ill; Bible; Meditations; Crucifixion; Religious life; Christianity
Description: In this powerful book on the experience of desolation John Colwell focuses on Psalm 22, read in the light of his own struggle with bi-polar disorder and the Christian belief that God the Son suffered in his humanity, to offer existential-theological reflections on the experience of God-forsakenness. Colwell writes, "My concern in writing this book and in reading this psalm is to reflect on the felt experience of God-forsakenness, my own and that of Christ, in the light of this psalm; to explore the theological and spiritual significance of this felt experience for myself, for Christ, for Christians generally. If this exploration proves to be helpful to me or to others then I am glad, but I am not writing this book to be helpful but rather to be truthful (and perhaps hopeful)."
Notes: First published in Great Britain by Paternoster.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-161) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Into the darkness; title: Reflecting on the darkness; title: Darkness and the Psalmist; title: Darkness and Israel; title: Christ's human darkness; title: Christ's unique darkness; title: Darkness and God; title: Darkness and presence.