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"Lament, a natural, healthy response to unfair suffering and death, has largely disappeared from modern life and thought. This book reaffirms ancient Greek and Hebrew conceptions of lament as a protest against death as fate. Richard A. Hughes finds lament to be basic in the Bible, and he traces the decline of lament, beginning with Plato's antifeminist critique and early Christian theodicy, through the church fathers and the Protestant reformers. He shows that lament was displaced by classical doctrines of providence but recaptured in the modern existentialist revolt against unjust suffering. Hughes discusses the need for lament in the present age of mass, catastrophic death."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fate and fatalism, Klage <Religion>, Christentum, History and criticism, Christianity, Bibel, Suffering, Death, Providence and government of God, Laments in the Bible, Laments, History of doctrines, Vorsehungsglaube, Tod, Leid, Suffering, religious aspects, Death, religious aspects, Religious aspectsEdition | Availability |
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Lament, Death, and Destiny (Studies in Biblical Literature, V. 68)
August 2, 2004, Peter Lang Publishing
Hardcover
in English
0820470961 9780820470962
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