Research Catalog

Title

Facing the abusing God : a theology of protest / David R. Blumenthal.

Author

Blumenthal, David R.

Publication

Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/John Knox Press, c1993.

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Details

Description

xxv, 318 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Looking at the experience of Holocaust survivors and of survivors of child abuse, this work asks disturbing questions why God permits victimization of the innocent.

Subject

• Holocaust (Jewish theology)
• God (Judaism)
• Holocaust survivors > Religious life
• Adult child abuse victims > Religious life

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-310) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

BEGINNING SOMEWHERE -- 1. Introduction -- Talking About Talking About God Voice -- God's Two Essential Attributes and the Theology of Image -- Irruption -- 2. Personality -- Personality as an Attribute of God -- The Attribute of Personality and Freud -- Six Personalist Attributes of God -- Meditative Postscript -- 3. Holiness -- Holiness as an Attribute of God -- Words That Go in Circles -- Kavvana and the Attribute of Holiness -- Holiness, Fear, and Joy -- Second Thoughts -- 4. Universes of Discourse -- The General Theory with Four Examples -- The Universe of Spiritual Discourse -- The Relationship Between the Spiritual and the Other Universes of Discourse -- Cognitive Dissonance -- 5. Seriatim, or Sailing into the Wind -- The Images -- The Images and Life -- The Images and the Text(s) -- Other Voices -- Counter-image -- TEXT-ING -- 6. Intimations -- Text -- Interpretation -- Inter-text-uality -- W-rite-ing -- How to Read This Part -- 7. Psalm 128, with four commentaries -- 8. Psalm 44, with four commentaries -- 9. Psalm 109, with four commentaries -- 10. Psalm 27, with four commentaries -- RE-SPONSE -- 11. Prelude -- 12. Dialogue with an Adult Survivor of Child Abuse -- The Voice of the Abused -- On God and Jewish Identity -- On Healing -- 13. Dialogue with a Systematic Theologian -- On Covenant -- Ethical, Spiritual, and Theological Nihilism -- On Healing -- 14. Beth's Psalm -- Psalm 27 -- Healing -- Beth's Healing Psalm -- CON-TEMPLATION -- 15. Prologue -- 16. The Abusing God -- Standing In-Between -- Abusiveness: The Scriptural Texts -- Abusiveness as an Attribute of God -- 17. Facing the Abusing God -- Protest and Challenge, Distrust and Suspicion as a Post-Holocaust, Abuse-Sensitive Stance -- A Re-new-ed Form of Religious Healing -- Some Theological and Psychological Considerations -- Transition into the Presence -- 18. Addressing the Abusing God -- Taking a Stance -- Psalms for an Angry Generation -- Closing Prayers to the Abusing God.

ISBN

0664254640 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93019484^

OCLC

• 27975156
• SCSB-11469653

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library