Jeremiah: Pain and Promise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780800699307)

Whether dealing with collective catastrophe or intimate trauma, recovering from emotional and physical hurt is hard. Kathleen O'Connor shows that although Jeremiah's emotionally wrought language can aggravate readers' memories of pain, it also documents the ways an ancient community-and the prophet personally-sought to restore their collapsed social world. Both prophet and book provide a traumatized community language to articulate disaster; move self-understanding from delusional security to identity as survivors; constitute individuals as responsible moral agents; portray God as equally afflicted by disaster; and invite a reconstruction of reality.

Author: Kathleen M. O'Connor
ISBN-10: 0800699300
ISBN-13: 9780800699307
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2012
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 05/01/2013 pg. 26