Title
God and the Victim : Traumatic Intrusions on Grace and Freedom
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Description
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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https://global.oup.com/academic/product/god-and-the-victim-9780195311099?lang=en&cc=us
ISBN
9780195311099
Publication Date
9-2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
Oxford ; New York
Disciplines
Religion
Recommended Citation
Beste, Jennifer Erin. 2007. God and the Victim : Traumatic Intrusions on Grace and Freedom. AAR academy series; American Academy of Religion academy series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.