| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 318 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
BEGINNING SOMEWHERE -- 1. Introduction -- Talking About Talking About God Voice -- God's Two Essential Attributes and the Theology of Image -- Irruption -- 2. Personality -- Personality as an Attribute of God -- The Attribute of Personality and Freud -- Six Personalist Attributes of God -- Meditative Postscript -- 3. Holiness -- Holiness as an Attribute of God -- Words That Go in Circles -- Kavvana and the Attribute of Holiness -- Holiness, Fear, and Joy -- Second Thoughts -- 4. Universes of Discourse -- The General Theory with Four Examples -- The Universe of Spiritual Discourse -- The Relationship Between the Spiritual and the Other Universes of Discourse -- Cognitive Dissonance -- 5. Seriatim, or Sailing into the Wind -- The Images -- The Images and Life -- The Images and the Text(s) -- Other Voices -- Counter-image -- TEXT-ING -- 6. Intimations -- Text -- Interpretation -- Inter-text-uality -- W-rite-ing -- How to Read This Part -- 7. Psalm 128, with four commentaries -- 8. Psalm 44, with four commentaries -- 9. Psalm 109, with four commentaries -- 10. Psalm 27, with four commentaries -- RE-SPONSE -- 11. Prelude -- 12. Dialogue with an Adult Survivor of Child Abuse -- The Voice of the Abused -- On God and Jewish Identity -- On Healing -- 13. Dialogue with a Systematic Theologian -- On Covenant -- Ethical, Spiritual, and Theological Nihilism -- On Healing -- 14. Beth's Psalm -- Psalm 27 -- Healing -- Beth's Healing Psalm -- CON-TEMPLATION -- 15. Prologue -- 16. The Abusing God -- Standing In-Between -- Abusiveness: The Scriptural Texts -- Abusiveness as an Attribute of God -- 17. Facing the Abusing God -- Protest and Challenge, Distrust and Suspicion as a Post-Holocaust, Abuse-Sensitive Stance -- A Re-new-ed Form of Religious Healing -- Some Theological and Psychological Considerations -- Transition into the Presence -- 18. Addressing the Abusing God -- Taking a Stance -- Psalms for an Angry Generation -- Closing Prayers to the Abusing God. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and indexes. |
| Subject |
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
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God (Judaism)
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Holocaust survivors -- Religious life.
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Adult child abuse victims -- Religious life.
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| ISBN |
0664254640 alkaline paper |
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