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Author Shooter, Susan.

Title How Survivors of Abuse Relate to God : the Authentic Spirituality of the Annihilated Soul / Susan Shooter
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Series Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology
Explorations in practical, pastoral, and empirical theology.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: What Lies Beneath; 2 Knocking at the Door: Presenting Issues; 3 Finding the Right Key: A Grounded Qualitative Design; 6 At Home with God: Marguerite Porete's Mirror; 7 The Authentic Spirituality of the Annihilated Soul; 8 What Lies Ahead: Conclusions and Implications; Epilogue; Bibliography; Author Index; Scripture Index; Subject Index
Summary Grappling with theological issues raised by abuse, this book argues that the Church should be challenged, and ministered to, by survivors. Paying careful attention to her interviews with Christian women survivors, Shooter finds that through painful experiences of transformation they have surprisingly become potential agents of transformation for others. Shooter brings the survivors' narratives into dialogue with the story of Job and with medieval mystic Marguerite Porete's spirituality of 'annihilation'. Culminating in an engagement with contemporary feminist theology concerning power and powe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Abused women -- Religious life
Adult child abuse victims -- Religious life
Sexual abuse victims -- Religious life
Child sexual abuse -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Adult child abuse victims -- Religious life
Child sexual abuse -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012005339
ISBN 9781409441274
140944127X
9781280877001
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9781317120766
1317120752
9781317120759
9786613718310
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