Living through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness
Overview
Pain disintegrates a person, fracturing self and relationships. In Living through Pain, Kristin M. Swenson charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain and surveys professional efforts to mitigate and manage it. Because the experience of pain involves all aspects of a person—body, mind, spirit, and community—Swenson consults the book of Psalms for wisdom, perspective, and insight. Her close reading of selected psalms from the Hebrew Bible demonstrates that the challenge of living through pain is timeless. Swenson shows how these ancient texts offer a vocabulary and grammar for understanding and expressing the contemporary experience of pain. The psalms tell of suffering and healing. They decry pain’s propensity to fracture even as they demonstrate a person’s ability to mend. Pain is a universal experience, and this book invites readers to consider more fully what is involved in the process of healing.
- Title: Living through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness
- Author: Kristin M. Swenson
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2005
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. Psalms › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Pain › Religious aspects--Christianity; Suffering › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781602581166, 9781280266546, 9781481301619, 9781602583399, 9781932792157, 1602581169, 1280266546, 1481301616, 1602583390, 1932792155
- Resource ID: LLS:LVNGPNPSLMSSRCH
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:25:47Z