Recommended in my Pastoral Care course:
Soelle, Dorothee. Suffering (Fortress Press, 1975)
Table of Contents:
| Introduction: THE TWO QUESTIONS |
1 |
| 1. |
A Critique of Christian Masochism |
9 |
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A Marriage |
10 |
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Dimensions of Affliction |
13 |
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Unconditional Submission |
17 |
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Theological Sadism |
22 |
|
The Sacrifice of Isaac |
28 |
| 2. |
A CRITIQUE OF POST-CHRISTIAN APATHY |
33 |
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“Prisoners Deserve at Least an SPCA” |
33 |
|
The Apathy of Society |
36 |
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The Christians' Apathetic God |
41 |
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Political Apathy—In Regard to Vietnam |
45 |
|
Change Hate into Strength |
49 |
| 3. |
SUFFERING AND LANGUAGE |
61 |
|
From the Life of a Worker |
62 |
|
Mute Suffering |
68
|
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Phases of Suffering |
70 |
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The Mute and the Speaking God |
75 |
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Gethsemane |
78 |
| 4. |
THE TRUTH IN ACCEPTANCE |
87 |
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"And There was Light" |
88 |
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Mysticism's Theology of Suffering |
93 |
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Tranquility and Love of the Cross |
99 |
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The Affirmative in Christianity |
103 |
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Job is Stronger than God |
109 |
| 5. |
SUFFERING AND LEARNING |
121 |
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A Folksong from Chile |
121 |
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The Bitter Christ |
127 |
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"I and the Father are One" |
134 |
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Suffering and Atheism |
141 |
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The Cross |
145 |
| 6. |
THE RELIGION OF SLAVES |
151 |
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Simone Weil, toujours Antigone |
151 |
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Blessed are Those Who Suffer |
158 |
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The Paradox |
162 |
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"There is No Alien Sorrow" |
171 |
|
Once Again: Ivan and Alyosha |
174 |
