Does Lamentations Help?: Paradoxes of Emotional Expression Does the book of Lamentations (and lament generally) serve a therapeutic purpose?
Conventional wisdom answers affirmatively and sometimes grounds this claim in the grief work theory of Sigmund Freud. However, modern psychological study has undermined the grief work hypothesis. The paper will briefly summarize the psychological trauma that follows foreign military occupation and address whether or how the poetry of lament serves to facilitate healing. The analysis will draw on modern empirical psychological studies to understand the situation of the Israelite under Babylonian rule and how ritual and writing may serve therapeutic ends or intensify psychic injury. Susan A. Calef, Creighton University It Shall Not Be So Among You (Mark 10:43): Implications for A Markan Spirituality This report focuses on the critique of abusive authority that is an essential element of Marks narrative theology. Part I attends to two troubling aspects of Mark that cannot be ignored when reading for the purposes of spirituality: 1. the portrayal of the Jewish leaders as villains in the pl
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