scholarly journals Suffering and the portrait of YHWH in Jeremiah: energizing hope in contexts of suffering and pain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.T Igba
Keyword(s):  
Vital Function ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Book Of Jeremiah

This paper interrogates the portrait of YHWH that emerges in the face of the pain and suffering of Jeremiah and the covenant people of YHWH. The paper attends to the question through a combination of synchronic and canonical methods in reading the book of Jeremiah. Through a theological analysis and exposition of some key texts, which includes Jeremiah 8:18-9:3 11:18- 12:13; and 32:1-15, this paper demonstrates that the portrait of YHWH that emerges is not a God who watches the suffering of his covenant people helplessly, hardheartedly or dispassionately from without, but is himself grief-stricken in the suffering of his people, so that he might eventually bring suffering to an end and hold all that are complicit accountable. The paper discusses the call of Jeremiah in the light of its connotation of forthcoming suffering and pain and the non-insulation of the prophet and YHWH’s covenant people from the coming suffering. This is followed by an expose on the nature of the suffering of YHWH as portrayed by Jeremiah in his poetry of lament in 8:18-9:3 as well as the vital function of Jeremiah 32 in the suffering of YHWH’s people.

Animal rights – Jewish perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronen Pinkas
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Golden Rule ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Strict Adherence ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Paradigmatic Change

This article raises the question why is it that, despite Jewish tradition devoting much thought to the status and treatment of animals and showing strict adherence to the notion of preventing their pain and suffering, ethical attitudes to animals are not dealt with systematically in the writings of Jewish philosophers and have not received sufficient attention in the context of moral monotheism. What has prevented the expansion of the golden rule: »Love your fellow as yourself: I am the LORD« (Lev 19,18) and »That which is hateful to you do not do to another« (BT Shabbat 31a:6; JT Nedarim 30b:1) to animals? Why is it that the moral responsibility for the fellow-man, the neighbor, or the other, has been understood as referring only to a human companion? Does the demand for absolute moral responsibility spoken from the face of the other, which Emmanuel Levinas emphasized in his ethics, not radiate from the face of the non-human other as well? Levinas’s ethics explicitly negates the principle of reciprocity and moral symmetry: The ›I‹ is committed to the other, regardless of the other’s attitude towards him. Does the affinity to the eternal Thou which Martin Buber also discovers in plants and animals not require a paradigmatic change in the attitude towards animals?

scholarly journals REVEALING THE WORLD OF ONCOLOGICAL TREATMENT THROUGH DRAMATIC THERAPEUTIC PLAY

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1112-1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marileise Roberta Antoneli Fonseca ◽  
Claudinei José Gomes Campos ◽  
Circéa Amália Ribeiro ◽  
Vanessa Pellegrino Toledo ◽  
Luciana de Lione Melo
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Child ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Oncological Treatment ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Preschool Age Children ◽  
The World ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Therapeutic Play

ABSTRACT This study aimed to understand the play of the preschool child undergoing oncological treatment through dramatic therapeutic play. A total of five preschool age children with cancer participated in the dramatic therapeutic play sessions, between January and May 2013. The material was analyzed using the framework of phenomenology: analysis of the structure of the phenomenon in place. The following categories emerged from the sessions: Immersing oneself in the world of the disease and the oncological treatment; and Remembering the world without the disease. The study learned that becoming ill with cancer is a process which generates pain and suffering for the child, leading her to feel small and fragile in the face of the discomforts of the numerous procedures to which she is subjected. Therapeutic play was an important resource for revealing how the child with cancer feels during the treatment, and showed the children's difficulty in interacting with the unknown, and how this difficulty makes the balance between the points of health and illness complex.

Suffering and its Relationship to Pain

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Richard Chapman ◽  
Jonathan Gavrin
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Physiological Mechanisms ◽  
Physiological Basis ◽  
Care Specialist ◽  
Sensory Features ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering

Pain is a complex, multidimensional perception with affective as well as sensory features. In part, it is a somatically focused negative emotion resembling perceived threat. Suffering refers to a perceived threat to the integrity of the self, helplessness in the face of that threat, and exhaustion of psychosocial and personal resources for coping. The concepts of pain and suffering therefore share negative emotion as a common ground. Examination of the central physiological mechanisms underlying pain, negative emotional arousal, and stress helps clarify the physiological basis of suffering and the causal influences of persistent pain and other stressors. Central mechanisms involve both limbic processing of aversive stimulation and disturbance of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis with consequent biological disequilibrium. The palliative care specialist can address suffering proactively as well as reactively by treating potentially chronic pain and symptoms aggressively and promoting the psychosocial well-being of the patient at every opportunity.

scholarly journals A LETTER FROM THE GOVERNOR OF BIG BLUE MARBLE SCHOOL FOR MORAL URGENCY, SOUL MAKING AND HUMAN ADVANCEMENTS

Think ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (37) ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
Tim Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Behavior ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering

A traditional defense of God in the face of pain and suffering is that humans learn from encounters with suffering – learn something wonderfully valuable that could not be learned in any other way. God is a teacher, and we humans are the students. This article examines the Problem of Evil through this paradigm. It argues that any God-as-teacher defense of evil fails on its face because God does not meet even the most lax standard for teacher behavior and action.

scholarly journals Legitimation theological of suffering as pedagogy: critical in Veena Das

Educação ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Allan Da Silva Coelho
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Moral Sense ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Social Legitimacy ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Symbolic Universe ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

understand the relationship that the Indian anthropologist Veena Das articulates between pedagogy and theodicies in social legitimacy of human suffering. How the theological legitimacy of suffering constitute pedagogic fundamentals of practices that educate the body and administer the sense of living in the framework of the capitalist ethos? For Das, a theodicy, as necessary suffering, displaced from the religious to the secular uses pain and suffering as a basis for Pedagogy. In Modernity, pain and suffering are played in the symbolic universe, the configuration and adherence to modern apitalist ethos, indicating the “way of being” normal as acceptance of a moral sense to the suffering and subordination in the face of laws and institutions. It is pedagogy for subalternizar, but not always resign. Sometimes in dispute of meanings, prepares a form of resistance facing the absurdity non-sense of pain. 

Introducing a re-reading of Lamentations through the lens of trauma studies: The challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan L. Serfontein
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Trauma Therapy ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Provided Examples

When the world went into lockdown (2020) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the streets and places of socialising became deserted – much like in the opening verse of Lamentations. This prompted a desire to re-read this book in light of the pandemic. The question was asked whether this book, set amidst the calamity of the Babylonian captivity and destruction of Jerusalem, can be helpful. Can this book help us make meaning and sense in the face of a new enemy that threatens the world? The article took note of all the necessary interpretations and introductions to the book of Lamentations and concluded that it can be read as lament and, in particular, communal lament. The language of lament, sometimes lost in a world of technology and positivity, can be helpful to verbalise loss and trauma. This elicited a discussion of trauma and biblical studies, and how they interact. Much of literature that originated in traumatic circumstances became ‘meaning-making literature’. It was the case with Lamentations back in the wake of 586 BCE and also in many other instances when the book was re-read. This article provided examples of these instances. The invitation was then accepted to read some of the verses in Lamentations through the lens of the trauma created by COVID-19, and many similarities were found.Contribution: Although Jerusalem was destroyed by an enemy that could be seen, and COVID-19 is caused by an enemy that cannot be seen, there are many similarities between the COVID-19 pandemic and the situation in Jerusalem as lamented by Lamentations. As ‘meaning-making literature’, lament is sometimes the only fitting response to the incomprehensible reality of pain and suffering. Lament defies the cheap answers so often given by religion when it is confronted with mystery, doubt and despair. This seemed to be the case in Lamentations. It was concluded that Lamentations can help readers through the process of trauma therapy as it opens the wound and helps the individual to connect with the bigger community in trying to make sense of it all and to involve others in the pain. The newness of the COVID-19 pandemic and a response from an Old Testament perspective, made the scope of this article relevant.

scholarly journals Assisted suicide: Perception of nursing students about professional performance on this topic

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-316
Author(s):  
D. Timóteo-Costa ◽  
V. Marinalva-de Barros ◽  
D.M. Rodrigues-da Silva ◽  
I.D. Lima-Cavalcanti ◽  
J.M. De Aquino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: Assisted suicide is considered an action in which a patient, wishes to terminate his/her life due to the pain and suffering caused by a disease and requests the necessary help from the healthcare professionals. The right to decide about ending one’s own life and the impact attributed to the experienced suffering are the main questions regarding assisted suicide. Objective: Characterize the perceptions of nursing students about professional performance in the face of assisted suicide. Methods: The research comprised a descriptive analysis with a qualitative approach, based on the application of semi-structured interviews on nursing students enrolled in the curricular 9th period, during 2014, in the city of Recife-PE, Brazil. The sample consisted of 19 students. The data, were analyzed and categorized using the Collective Subject Discourse (CSD) method. Results and Discussion: The obtained data suggest that students consider assisted suicide as a way of preserving dignity in the face of procedures that will make the death an inevitably painful process. Indicate that euthanasia and assisted suicide should remain illegal, and they would not get involved professionally. But others assured their willingness to participate because they would be satisfying the patient's wishes, however, for its legalization it is necessary to create principles that would guide the execution of these procedures. Conclusion: The students consider, that the professional can eliminate real possibilities of treatment and recovery of the patient by accepting his request for suicide. However, some students are in favor of this procedure, arguing that the patient is free to conduct his own life.

scholarly journals Personal wisdom development involves suffering: Experimental Validation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankita Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Action Orientation ◽  
Choice Making ◽  
Personal Wisdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Personality Disposition

Personal growth occurs with life experiences and most importantly handling and reflecting on negative life experiences teaches us more (Mickler & Staudinger, 2008; Staudinger & Gluck, 2011). The distinction between personal and general wisdom is based on the differences in the development process and happiness-satisfaction distinction. This article argues that personal wisdom development involves pain and suffering (Staudinger & Kunzmann, 2005) yet feels more satisfying in retrospect. The wisdom literature so far is focused on understanding the concept which is majorly correlational, and recommendations are to study the idea experimentally so the concept can be brought to the intervention arena. Therefore, the present study attempts to explore, 'the effect of personality disposition (emotional regulation, reflectiveness, openness to experiences and action orientation) in decision making and affect handling (regret handling) as an indicator of wisdom. Precisely, 1) if people with different personality disposition differ in the choices, exploring the alternatives and handling regret in the face of failure; 2) if people with higher action orientation chose a risky option and if this choice results into failure how do they handle and finally, 3) does personality disposition predict regret handling. The objective was explored by applying SAWS questionnaire, Action Orientation questionnaire, and share the market task. The results suggested that openness to experience, and preoccupation vs. disengagement, hesitation vs. initiative dimension of action orientation significantly influences choice-making and comparatively less regret experience. Additionally, individual high on openness and action orientation explore more alternative, choose risky options and report less regret if faced with failure. The common explanation for less regret after failure may revolve around the theme of 'at least I tried'. The mediator regression analysis suggested that the individuals with initiative tendencies regret less, similarly, people with an openness to experience also regret less than their counterparts. However, individuals with high initiatives and openness to experience regret more in comparison to people with only openness or initiative tendencies. This experimental evidence confirms the observation that individuals who are open to different experiences and take specific actions to try new things will face more ups and downs and experience more regret.

scholarly journals “Keeping Vigil” and the Response of a Believer to Grief and Suffering

Horizons ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-368
Author(s):  
James G. Sabak
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Study ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Full Expression ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
The Moment

The phenomenon of organizing a civic candlelight vigil in the face of violence and tragedy, while striking and powerful in addressing the moment, can be also religiously ambiguous in some circumstances, and insufficiently therapeutic in others. Keeping vigil in the Christian tradition is markedly different from its contemporary expressions. This article explores and evaluates—through the use of contemporary examples and the psychological and ritual analyses of Gotthard Booth and Victor Turner—the purpose and goals of vigils held in the public square with the nature and impact of keeping vigil in the Christian tradition, especially as celebrated in the Easter Vigil. This expository and diagnostic study suggests that a full expression of keeping vigil serves as an articulation of how believers are challenged to confront pain and suffering with a more profound theological and liturgical response that stands in stark contrast to contemporary cultural and social mechanisms.

Why do people believe in a zero-sum economy?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel G. B. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Coalitional Psychology ◽  
The Face ◽  
Zero Sum

AbstractZero-sum thinking and aversion to trade pervade our society, yet fly in the face of everyday experience and the consensus of economists. Boyer & Petersen's (B&P's) evolutionary model invokes coalitional psychology to explain these puzzling intuitions. I raise several empirical challenges to this explanation, proposing two alternative mechanisms – intuitive mercantilism (assigning value to money rather than goods) and errors in perspective-taking.

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