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Harasta and Brock show how lament seems to introduce notes of mistrust into an otherwise confident relationship with faith, God and His will.
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Harasta and Brock show that a robust concept and practice of lament is an appropriate response to questions of evil and suffering.
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Table of Contents
Introduction (Eva Harasta and Brian Brock) 01 Lament and the phenomenon of suffering Rebekka A. Klein: The Phenomenology of Lament and the Presence of God in Time Jonas Bauer: Enquiring into the Absence of Lament - A Study of the Entwining of Suffering and Guilt in Lament Christian Polke: God, lament, contingency: An essay in fundamental theology 02 The assault of lament on systematic thought Matthias D. Wüthrich: Lament for Naught? An Inquiry into the Suppression of Lament in Systematic Theology: On the Example of Karl Barth Martin Wendte: Lamentation between Contradiction and Obedience: Hegel and Barth as diametrically opposed brothers in the spirit of modernity Marius Timmann Mjaaland: The Fractured Unity of God: Lament as a challenge to the very nature of God 03 Lament for God's sake? Claudia Welz: Trust and Lament: Faith in the Face of Godforsakenness Henrike Frey-Anthes: Praise, Petition, Lament - and Back: On the Significance of Lament in the Book of Tobit Markus Öhler: To mourn, weep, lament and groan: On the heterogeneity of the New Testament's statements on lament 04 Lamenting in Christ Stephen Lakkis: ‘Have you any right to be angry?' Lament as a metric of socio-political and theological context Brian Brock: Augustine's Incitement to Lament, from the Enarrationes in Psalmos Eva Harasta: Crucified Praise and Resurrected Lament Biographical information on the authors