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Resurrecting Wounds : Living in the Afterlife of Trauma by Shelly Rambo (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBaylor University Press
ISBN-101481306790
ISBN-139781481306799
eBay Product ID (ePID)27038673967
Product Key Features
Number of Pages196 Pages
Publication NameResurrecting Wounds : Living in the Afterlife of Trauma
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
SubjectChristian Theology / Christology, Christian Theology / Systematic, Inspirational, Christian Theology / General, Christian Theology / Anthropology
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion
AuthorShelly Rambo
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight10.7 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2016-042031
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsAn important and beautifully written contribution to current theological discourse on trauma. -- Hannah Jones -- Reading Religion
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal248.8/625
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Reenvisioning Resurrection 1. Erasing Wounds: John Calvin and the Problem of the Resurrected Body 2. Touching Wounds: Macrina?s Scar and the Balm of Resurrection Flesh 3. Surfacing Wounds: Christian Theology and Resurrecting Histories in the Age of Ferguson 4. Discovering Wounds: Veteran Healing and Resurrection in the Upper Room Conclusion: Communal After-Living
SynopsisThe Gospel of John's account of doubting Thomas is often told as a lesson about the veracity and triumph of Christian faith. And yet it is a story about wounds. Interpretations of this Gospel narrative, by focusing on Christ's victory in the resurrection, reflect Christianity's unease with the wounds that remain on the body of the risen Jesus. By returning readers to this familiar passage, Resurrecting Wounds expands the scope of the Upper Room to the present world where wounds mark all of humanity. Shelly Rambo rereads the Thomas story and the history of its interpretation through the lens of trauma studies to reflect on the ways that the wounds of race, gender, and war persist. Wounds do not simply go away, even though a close reading of John Calvin reveals his theological investments in removing wounds. This erasure reflects a dominant mode of Christian thinking, but it is not the only Christian reading. By contrast, Macrina's scar, in Gregory of Nyssa's account of her life and death, displays how resurrection can be inscribed in wounds, particularly in the illumination of her body after her death. The scar, produced in and through a mother's touch, recalls a healing, linking resurrection to the work of tending wounds. Much like Christ's wounds and Macrina's scar, racial wounds can be found on the skin of America's collective life. The wounds of racial histories, unhealed, resurface again and again. The wounds of war persist as well, despite a cultural calculus that links the suffering of a soldier with that of Christ. Again, the visceral display of Jesus' wounds, when placed at the center of Thomas' encounter in the Upper Room, enacts a vision of resurrecting that addresses the real harm of the real wounds of war. The powerful Upper Room images of resurrection--encounters with wounds, the invitation to touch, and the formation of a community--present visions of truth-telling and of healing that grapple with the pressing questions of wounds surfacing in the midst of human encounters with violence, suffering, and trauma. While traditional accounts of resurrection in Christian theology have focused on the afterlife, this book forges a theology of resurrection wounds in the afterliving. By returning again and again to Christ's woundedness, we discover ways to live with our own.
