God and the Victim : Traumatic Intrusions on Grace and Freedom

God and the Victim : Traumatic Intrusions on Grace and Freedom

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Christian tradition holds that an individual's ability to respond to God's grace to love both God and neighbor is not wholly vulnerable to earthly contingencies, such as victimization. Today, however, trauma theory insists that situations of overwhelming violence can permanently damage a person's capacity for responsive agency. For Christians, this theory raises the very troubling possibility that humans can inflict ultimate harm on each other, such that some individuals' eternal destiny can be determined not by themselves but by those who do great harm. Offering crucial insights that lead to a more adequate understanding of the relation between Gods grace and human freedom, Bestes important theory reconfigures our visions of God and humanity and alters our perceptions of what it means to truly love ones neighbor.

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9780195311099

Publication Date

9-2007

Publisher

Oxford University Press

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Oxford ; New York

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Religion

God and the Victim : Traumatic Intrusions on Grace and Freedom

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