Richard A. Hughes

Lament, Death, and Destiny

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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… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8204-7096-2
EAN: 9780820470962
Produktnummer: 19040313
Verlag: Lang, Peter
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 179 S.
Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.8 cm x D1.7 cm 398 g
Reihenbandnummer: 68
Gewicht: 398

Über den Autor

The Author: Richard A. Hughes is the M.B. Rich Professor of Religion at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in systematic theology at Boston University and studied in Geneva, Paris, and Tokyo. He has published seven books and many essays in the areas of ethics, depth psychology, and theology. His Return of the Ancestor (Peter Lang, 1992) won the Szondi Prize of Switzerland.