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In recent years there has been a surge of interest in trauma, trauma theory, and its application to the biblical text. This collection of essays explores the usefulness of using trauma theory as a lens through which to read the biblical texts. Each of the essays explores the concept of how trauma might be defined and applied in biblical studies. Using a range of different but intersection theories of trauma, the essays reflect on the value of trauma studies for offering new insights into the biblical text. Including contributions from biblical scholars, as well as systematic and pastoral...

Suddenly, in the twenty-first century, religion has become a political power. It affects us all, whether we re religious or not. If we re not in danger of being blown up by a suicide bomber we ve got leaders to whom God speaks, ordering them to start a war. We re beset by people who demand that we give ourselves to Jesus while they smugly assure us of their own superiority and inherent goodness. We re surrounded by those who noisily reject science while making full use of the benefits science brings; by the spiritual ones; the ones who believe in magic; and there s the militant atheists...

In recent years there has been a surge of interest in trauma, trauma theory, and its application to the biblical text. This collection of essays explores the usefulness of using trauma theory as a lens through which to read the biblical texts. Each of the essays explores the concept of how trauma might be defined and applied in biblical studies. Using a range of different but intersection theories of trauma, the essays reflect on the value of trauma studies for offering new insights into the biblical text. Including contributions from biblical scholars, as well as systematic and pastoral...

The Latin adage about the Virgin Mary, de Maria numquam satis, tells us there is -never enough of Mary.- Breaking new ground in the long tradition of Christian mariology, Imagining Mary is an interdisciplinary investigation from an atheist point of view--a first step toward a truly unbiased, psychoanalytic mariology.

From East to West and from the New Testament Mary of Nazareth to Our Lady of the Good Death in the twentieth century, Imagining Mary examines the mother of God in her multi-religious and pan-historical context. Daniel Rancour-Laferriere...

No Other Gods is a wide-ranging analysis of the biblical myth of God and of its impact on culture and human consciousness, from the perspective of the evolution of consciousness that precedes and postdates it.

Phyllis Moore deeply appreciates biblical thought and practice and understands the psychological value of the patriarchal, monotheistic movement. It created a new and distinctive kind of individual ego-consciousness. But it did so at a great price, and Moore is fully aware of this, too.

Those who attend to Moore’s insights will come away from a reading of...