Evoking Lament A Theological Discussion [Hardcover]

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. W?thrich: 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 ?hler: 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