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Book Synopsis Perspectives on Human Suffering by : Jeff Malpas
Download or read book Perspectives on Human Suffering written by Jeff Malpas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework. Most of the essays contained here incorporate some degree of interdisciplinarity in their own approach, but the volume nevertheless divides into three main sections: Philosophical considerations; Humanities approaches; Legal, medical, and therapeutic contexts. The volume includes essays by philosophers, medical practitioners and researchers, historians, lawyers, literary, Classical, and Judaic scholars. The essays are united by a common concern with the question of the human character of suffering, and the demands that suffering, and the recognition of suffering, make upon us.
Book Synopsis Alleviating World Suffering by : Ronald E. Anderson
Download or read book Alleviating World Suffering written by Ronald E. Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering. At the same time it is also the first book framing the fields of global socio-economic development, world health, human rights, peace studies, sustainability, and poverty within the challenge of alleviating suffering and improving quality of life. Both international studies and global development have become specialized and fragmented, whereas this work assembles all of these development fragments together in order to determine whether common ground exists to make headway in reducing global suffering. Leading experts in these various fields of development and suffering have been recruited worldwide to give scholarly assessments of the major human problems and how they can be successfully tackled.
Book Synopsis Human Suffering and Quality of Life by : Ronald E. Anderson
Download or read book Human Suffering and Quality of Life written by Ronald E. Anderson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress. The scholarship on suffering is made more comprehensible in the book by using nine different conceptual frames that have been used for making sense of suffering. The primary focus of this work is with the last frame, the quality of life frame. Overall, this chapters show how the research on quality of life and well-being can be enhanced by embracing human suffering.
Book Synopsis Pain as Human Experience by : Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Download or read book Pain as Human Experience written by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-11-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With case studies drawn from anthropological investigations of chronic pain sufferers and pain clinics in the northeastern United States, the authors attempt to invent new ways of writing about this language-resistant human experience. Focused on substantive issues in the study of chronic pain, their work explores the great divide between the culturally shaped language of suffering and the traditional language of medical and psychological theorizing. They argue that the representation of experience in local social worlds is a central challenge to the human sciences and to ethnographic writing, and that meeting that challenge is also crucial to the refiguring of pain in medical discourse and health policy debates. Anthropologists, scholars from the medical social sciences and humanities, and many general readers will be interested in Pain as Human Experience. In addition, behavioral medicine and pain specialists, psychiatrists, and primary care practitioners will find much that is relevant to their work in this book."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Women and the Value of Suffering by : Kristine M. Rankka
Download or read book Women and the Value of Suffering written by Kristine M. Rankka and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kristine Rankka has produced a masterpiece--an insightful analysis of modern feminist interpretations of 'radical' or 'tragic' suffering. Here is a mature work, comprehensive in its breadth, compelling in its argument, moving in its palpable sensitivity, poetic and graceful in its articulation. By invoking the category of the 'tragic, ' Rankka proposes a mystical-political spirituality to move reflection on suffering from the private, to the communal, interdependent realm. Rankka's _Women and the Value of Suffering_ is a creative retrieval of a conversation among women, long in progress, about the meaning of life's suffering. It is eminently readable and thoroughly enriching " George E. Griener, S.J. Academic dean Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Book Synopsis Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering by : Timothy Keller
Download or read book Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering written by Timothy Keller and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The question of why God would allow pain and suffering in the world has vexed believers and nonbelievers forever. In Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, Timothy Keller takes on this enduring issue and shows that there is meaning and reason behind pain and suffering, making a forceful and groundbreaking case that this essential part of the human experience can be overcome only by understanding our relationship with God. Using biblical wisdom and personal stories of overcoming adversity, Keller brings a much-needed, fresh viewpoint to this important issue."--Back cover
Book Synopsis On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering by : Pope John Paul II
Download or read book On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering written by Pope John Paul II and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on February 11, 1984, Salvifici Doloris addresses the question of why God allows suffering. This 30th anniversary edition includes the complete text of the letter plus commentary by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD, a priest and physician trained in geriatrics with an expertise in palliative care. Acknowledgments of recent episodes of violence bring the papal document into a modern context. Insightful questions suited for individual or group use, applicable prayers, and ideas for meaningful action invite readers to personally respond to the mystery of suffering.
Book Synopsis Suffering, Politics, Power by : Cynthia Halpern
Download or read book Suffering, Politics, Power written by Cynthia Halpern and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2002-01-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suffering, Politics, Power argues that human suffering on a global scale constitutes the most urgent and least understood question of contemporary politics and political theory. In the modern age, the experience of suffering is primarily a political problem, constructed out of crucial, conflicting perspectives. The book draws on a genealogy of suffering through the conflicting perspectives of four major political theorists: Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although supplying contradictory accounts of the nature of suffering and human response to it, these theorists, when examined together, provide a historical foundation for the political structures of our time and a trajectory for the problematic of suffering which defies all limits. This book works to foster a contemporary political response to suffering, addressing the techniques of its production and representation and the dilemmas of ascertaining causes and responsibilities.
Book Synopsis Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering by : James Keating
Download or read book Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering written by James Keating and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James F. Keating and Thomas Joseph White have gathered here a selection of essays that consider how God's suffering or lack thereof can relate to our redemption from and through human suffering. The contributors - Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox - tread carefully but surely over this thorny ground, defending diverse and often opposing perspectives. Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering is an excellent contribution to the latest stage in this difficult and important theological controversy."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Philosophy of Suffering by : David Bain
Download or read book Philosophy of Suffering written by David Bain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suffering is a central component of our lives. We suffer pain. We fall ill. We fail and are failed. Our loved ones die. It is a commonplace to think that suffering is, always and everywhere, bad. But might suffering also be good? If so, in what ways might suffering have positive, as well as negative, value? This important volume examines these questions and is the first comprehensive examination of suffering from a philosophical perspective. An outstanding roster of international contributors explore the nature of suffering, pain, and valence, as well as the value of suffering and the relationships between suffering, morality, and rationality. Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, cognitive and behavioral psychology as well as those in health and medicine researching conceptual issues regarding suffering and pain.
Book Synopsis God and the Mystery of Human Suffering by : Robin Ryan, CP
Download or read book God and the Mystery of Human Suffering written by Robin Ryan, CP and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis If God Is for Us by : Gloria L. Schaab
Download or read book If God Is for Us written by Gloria L. Schaab and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In every era, the scope of pain, suffering, and death in the world and its peoples has provoked profound and perplexing questions. Attempts to reconcile such experiences with a benevolent God only further complicate the questions and confusions that arise out of suffering. If God is for us : Christian perspectives on God and suffering illustrates a profound tradition of struggling - both personally and theologically - to interpret, reflect on, and find meaning in the midst of hardship. Through biblical, theological, and philosophical resources, Schaab explores a broad range of both ancient and modern Christian interpretations of personal, communal, and systemic suffering." -- Cover.
Book Synopsis Suffering and the Sovereignty of God by : John Piper
Download or read book Suffering and the Sovereignty of God written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2006-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last few years, 9/11, a tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and many other tragedies have shown us that the vision of God in today's churches in relation to evil and suffering is often frivolous. Against the overwhelming weight and seriousness of the Bible, many Christians are choosing to become more shallow, more entertainment-oriented, and therefore irrelevant in the face of massive suffering. In Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, contributors John Piper, Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Saint, Carl Ellis, David Powlison, Dustin Shramek, and Mark Talbot explore the many categories of God's sovereignty as evidenced in his Word. They urge readers to look to Christ, even in suffering, to find the greatest confidence, deepest comfort, and sweetest fellowship they have ever known.
Download or read book Human Struggle written by Mona Siddiqui and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comparative work to explore how humankind seek out the meaning of life amid suffering and struggle.
Download or read book Human Suffering written by Pete Moore and published by . This book was released on 2006* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Acts That Prove Causes of Human Suffering from the Perspective of Reincarnation by : Yvonne Crespo Limoges
Download or read book Acts That Prove Causes of Human Suffering from the Perspective of Reincarnation written by Yvonne Crespo Limoges and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much unfairness, inequality and suffering in our world. Could some of these situations be the direct result of actions we took in past lives? This book provides a series of spirit communications received through spiritual mediumship indicating that to be true. Spirits in the afterlife reveal reasonable explanations why many seemingly unexplained human conditions, people and many tragic circumstances in our lives were brought about as a consequence of our choices and actions made in past life existences. Also revealed, is that we chose and were aware, before rebirth, what the circumstances of our lives would be. For we returned to earth, out of love: to make amends, for redemption, self-sacrifice in caring for those we love, as well as for the spiritual progress of our soul. Further, we are not alone in our journey throughout our material lives. We have our spirit guides and the spirits of family and friends that help us from the afterlife, always providing inspiration, guidance and consolation. We are never alone in our sorrows! The life stories herein will provide new insight and answers to the whys of our lives, individually and collectively, and the spirits reveal there is a Divine Plan which is one of CONSOLATION, HOPE and UNCONDITONAL LOVE.
Book Synopsis Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics by : Joseph Tham
Download or read book Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics written by Joseph Tham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves. The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human vulnerability and personal integrity. This book serves to supplement this effort with a religious perspective given a great number of the world’s population is affiliated with some religious traditions. While there is diversity within each of these traditions, all of them carry in them the mission to protect the weak, the underprivileged, and the poor. Thus, here presented is a collection of papers written by bioethics experts from six major world religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism—who were gathered to discuss the meaning and implications of the principle of vulnerability in their respective traditions.
