Sites of violence, sites of grace
Subtitle: Christian nonviolence and the traumatized self
By: Cynthia Hess.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780739119457; 9780739130834
Subjects: Yoder, John Howard; Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Psychic trauma -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Nonviolence in the theology of John Howard Yoder; title: Jesus and the politics of Christian nonviolence; title: Resisting the powers and principalities; title: Church as an alternative construction of the world; title: The social ethics of the alternative community; title: Internal violence : the self as a site of violence; title: The fragmentation of the traumatized self; title: Trauma and traumatic stress; title: Feminist responses to clinical theories of trauma common features of traumatization; title: The traumatized self; title: Healing the traumatized self : theoretical perspectives; title: Establishing safety; title: Narrating the trauma; title: Retemporalization; title: Meaning-making and healing; title: The difficult matter of forgiveness; title: Trauma healing and communities; title: Ecclesial relations and the healing of the self; title: Trauma and ecclesial relations; title: The church as voluntary community; title: The church as egalitarian community; title: The church as witnessing community; title: Performing the narratives of Jesus; title: Narrative and practices in Yoder's theology; title: Re-examining the narratives of Jesus; title: Redemption in trauma studies and Christian theology; title: Enacting an eschatological identity; title: Owning the narratives of Jesus; title: Healing and the body; title: Agents of nonviolence in the world; title: Nonviolence redefined; title: Sites of violence, sites of grace.