Lamentations and the Tears of the World

Lamentations and the Tears of the World

ISBN-10:
1570753997
ISBN-13:
9781570753992
Pub. Date:
06/28/2004
Publisher:
Orbis Books
ISBN-10:
1570753997
ISBN-13:
9781570753992
Pub. Date:
06/28/2004
Publisher:
Orbis Books
Lamentations and the Tears of the World

Lamentations and the Tears of the World

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781570753992
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 06/28/2004
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 348,150
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Forewordxi
Prefacexiii
Part ICommentary: Who Will Comfort You?
1Poetry of Loss: A Defense3
A Book of Comfort3
A Work of Art4
Occupation and Exile6
Narrative Wreckage7
The Marriage of Form and Content8
Mixture of Literary Genres9
Acrostic and Alphabetic Puzzles11
Pain and Loss in Alphabetic Order12
Relationships among Chapters13
Multiple Testimonies14
The City as Woman14
The Missing Voice15
Authorship15
Places in the Canon and Titles15
Musical Appropriations16
2There Is No One to Comfort You: Lamentations 117
The Narrator's View of Zion's Fall18
Daughter Zion Pleads for God to See23
A Topography of Pain28
3Your Suffering Is Vast as the Sea: Lamentations 230
Structure of the Poem31
The Narrator as Participant in Zion's Reality31
The Narrator's Conversion35
The Narrator Pleads for Action41
4Mercies New Every Day: Lamentations 344
Changes in Poetic Structures45
The First Complaint46
Divine Mercies49
The Strongman's Second Complaint53
Inexplicable Hope57
5Beaten Down: Lamentations 458
Shrinking58
Mercy Destroyed62
The Community Remembers66
6Plea from an Occupied Land: Lamentations 570
A Shorter, Less Structured Poem70
Pain without Compromise71
Peril All Around75
Unsettled Longing79
Part IIReflections: A Theology of Witness
7The Power of the Missing Voice83
Many Views of Tragedy83
Inspired Restraint85
Denying Pain86
The Family as School of Denial89
Global Society and Hopelessness90
Social Mechanisms of Denial91
Denying Pain92
Lamentations Denies Denial94
8Who Will Comfort You? A Theology of Witness96
She Has No One to Comfort Her97
The Narrator Sees99
You Have to Come Close101
Mirroring Pain102
Poetry as Salvation103
A Theology of Witness104
Despair Work108
9The Abusing God110
God's Character111
The Dilemma113
Lamentations' Portrait of God115
Toward Another View119
Enter the Conversation121
Stammering toward the Unsayable123
10Prayer for the Wounded World124
The Lament Form124
Prayer as Truthfulness125
Lamentations as Impassioned Hope127
Lamentations as a Work of Justice128
Prayers for the World132
Lamentations and Liturgical Prayer133
Daring Prayer135
Epilogue: The Comforting God137
A Spirituality of Wholeness137
A Summons to Companionship138
Theological Betweenness139
A Biblical Response139
Zion's Long Struggle141
God Is Her Witness145
Zion and the Suffering Servant147
Bibliography149
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