The Importance of Suffering - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Importance of Suffering write by James Davies. This book was released on 2012-03-12. The Importance of Suffering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional discontent and discusses how we can engage with it clinically, personally and socially to uncover its productive value. The Importance of Suffering explores a relational theory of understanding emotional suffering suggesting that suffering, does not spring from one dimension of our lives, but is often the outcome of how we relate to the world internally – in terms of our personal biology, habits and values, and externally – in terms of our society, culture and the world around us. Davies suggests that suffering is a healthy call-to-change and shouldn't be chemically anesthetised or avoided. The book challenges conventional thinking by arguing that if we understand and manage suffering more holistically, it can facilitate individual and social transformation in powerful and surprising ways. The Importance of Suffering offers new ways to think about, and therefore understand suffering. It will appeal to anyone who works with suffering in a professional context including professionals, trainees and academics in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and clinical psychology.
Wandering in Darkness
Wandering in Darkness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wandering in Darkness write by Eleonore Stump. This book was released on 2012-09-13. Wandering in Darkness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Only the most naïve or tendentious among us would deny the extent and intensity of suffering in the world. Can one hold, consistently with the common view of suffering in the world, that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? This book argues that one can. Wandering in Darkness first presents the moral psychology and value theory within which one typical traditional theodicy, namely, that of Thomas Aquinas, is embedded. It explicates Aquinas's account of the good for human beings, including the nature of love and union among persons. Eleonore Stump also makes use of developments in neurobiology and developmental psychology to illuminate the nature of such union. Stump then turns to an examination of narratives. In a methodological section focused on epistemological issues, the book uses recent research involving autism spectrum disorder to argue that some philosophical problems are best considered in the context of narratives. Using the methodology argued for, the book gives detailed, innovative exegeses of the stories of Job, Samson, Abraham and Isaac, and Mary of Bethany. In the context of these stories and against the backdrop of Aquinas's other views, Stump presents Aquinas's own theodicy, and shows that Aquinas's theodicy gives a powerful explanation for God's allowing suffering. She concludes by arguing that this explanation constitutes a consistent and cogent defense for the problem of suffering.
Why a Suffering World Makes Sense
Why a Suffering World Makes Sense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why a Suffering World Makes Sense write by Chris Tiegreen. This book was released on 2006. Why a Suffering World Makes Sense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tiegreen reveals that there is a point to suffering--it reveals God's mercy, forgiveness, and healing that can only be known in an imperfect world. He encourages readers to let God's hidden attributes be revealed in their pain, thereby helping them unravel the mystery of who God is.
Taking Suffering Seriously
Taking Suffering Seriously - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking Suffering Seriously write by William F. Felice. This book was released on 1996-08-15. Taking Suffering Seriously available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the evolution of collective human rights in international relations and argues that the concept of human rights must integrate group rights based on race/ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality.
A Theology of Suffering
A Theology of Suffering - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Theology of Suffering write by J. Bryson Arthur. This book was released on 2020-03-31. A Theology of Suffering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What if suffering were not arbitrary? Not meaningless, nor a sign of punishment or defeat, but a fundamental element of healing, growth, and triumph? What if suffering were positive? This book is a study and meditation on the nature, origin, and reality of suffering. Contemplating the suffering of Christ and other biblical figures, J. Bryson Arthur investigates a theology of suffering that testifies to its necessity within the plan of God. Bryson reminds us that the nature of suffering is to share fellowship with Christ – to take up one’s cross and follow him. Thus, suffering is not arbitrary but intrinsic to the path God has laid before our feet: a path leading to restoration, wholeness, and fullness of life. An important resource for students of theology, this is also a powerful and hopeful read for anyone seeking meaning in the midst of suffering.
