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Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience: Pastoral and Clinical Insights book cover

1st Edition

Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience Pastoral and Clinical Insights

Edited By Christopher C. H. Cook, Nathan H. White Copyright 2020
260 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge
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In recent years, resilience has become a near ubiquitous cultural phenomenon whose influence extends into many fields of academic enquiry. Though research suggests that religion and spirituality are significant factors in engendering resilient adaptation, comparatively little biblical and theological reflection has gone into understanding this construct. This book seeks to remedy this deficiency... Read more

Foreword

John Swinton

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

    1. Introduction

      2. Nathan H. White and Christopher C.H. Cook

      Section 1: Biblical Visions of Resilience

    2. ‘To Do You Good in the End’: The Wilderness Experience in Israel’s Communal Memory (Deuteronomy 8)

      3. Noel Forlini Burt

    3. Singing Stories Together: Relationship and Storytelling as Resources for Resilience in the Book of Psalms

      4. Rebecca W. Poe Hays

    4. Struck Down but Not Destroyed: Images of Resilience from the Book of Jeremiah

      5. Jonathan D. Bentall

    5. Traumatic Speech and the Rejection of Narrative in Lamentations

      6. David Janzen

    6. Abide in Me: A Johannine Theology of Resilience

      7. Andrew Byers

    7. Complements to the Notion of Human Resilience: Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians as a Test Case

      8. Steven J. Kraftchick

    8. Resilience in 1 Peter: Faithfulness and Hope in the Face of Adversity

      9. Katherine M. Hockey

      Section 2: Theological Visions of Resilience

    9. Resilience and Music in the Early Church

      10. Carol Harrison

    10. Virtue and Resilience: Aquinas’s Christian Approach to Virtue Applied to Resilience

      11. Craig Steven Titus

    11. The Certainty of God’s Promises: Martin Luther’s Pastoral Use of the Gospel

      12. Carl L. Beckwith

    12. ‘The Science of the Cross’: Edith Stein and Resilience

      13. Peter Tyler

    13. Resilient unto Death: Resilience through the Lens of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

      14. Jennifer Moberly

    14. ‘A Simple and Warm Common Humanity’: Self-Transcendence and Restless Resilience in Jürgen Moltmann’s Theology

      15. Adam J. Powell

      Section 3: Practical Visions of Resilience

    15. Clinical Applications of Resilience

      16. Joanna Collicutt

    16. Pastoral Reflections on Resilience

      17. Page Brooks

    17. Concluding Reflections: Transforming Resilience

                    Christopher C.H. Cook and Nathan H. White

Biography

Christopher C. H. Cook is Professor of Spirituality, Theology & Health in the Department of Theology & Religion at Durham University, an Honorary Minor Canon at Durham Cathedral, and an Honorary Chaplain with Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV).





Nathan H. White is Director of the Institute for Faith and Resilience and a chaplain for the US Army.

"What does theology have to do with resilience? In this collection of essays, White and Cook have brought together an insightful and thought provoking collection of responses from within the Christian tradition. The answers that emerge challenge some assumptions within the social sciences and have wide relevance for pastoral and clinical practice. This is a very welcome and needed addition to the burgeoning field of resilience studies."

Harold G. Koenig, Director, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, USA

"How best to cope with life’s difficulties – how to be resilient – is a question of perennial importance, which is perhaps particularly pressing today. These wide-ranging essays open up fresh and life-giving perspectives on the issue."

Walter Moberly, Professor of Theology and Biblical Interpretation, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, UK

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