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Risking Truth - Reshaping the World Through Prayers of Lament (Microfilm)
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Risking Truth - Reshaping the World Through Prayers of Lament (Microfilm)
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Description: Ours is a world characterized by change. Often the
most fundamental changes in our lives result from experiences of
profound suffering and loss as we are wrenched from our familiar
world and driven into one that is alien. In the midst of such loss,
we are compelled to choose between trying to cling to the remnants
of a reality that is passing away and trying to make a home in a
strange new world. Biblical prayers of lament wait for us at this
crossroad of loss and newness. Prayers of lament are marked both by
loss and by the inexplicable silence of God. Everything we believe
about God's justice and goodness is placed in doubt by his
hiddenness. The cry of lament is an act of tremendous risk. To
lament is to abandon the sinking ship of religious certainty and
strike out in a small dingy, amidst stormy seas, in search of a
hidden God. Faced with God's silence, the biblical writers are
willing to place at risk their most fundamental beliefs and to
lament. The Psalm writers risk the loss of the Exodus story by
crying out to a God who has failed to save, demanding that he once
more part the chaotic waters and make a way in the desert. Job
risks the loss of a moral God by confronting God with his
injustice. Jeremiah risks the loss of the covenant by calling out
for God to return yet again to a faithless partner and a failed
marriage. Matthew and John the Revelator recognize that the coming
of Messiah is impelled by the cries of innocent sufferers.
Throughout the Bible, lament risks the possible loss of
relationship with God and presses for a new, though uncertain,
experience of God's presence. Endorsements: Widespread attention to
the practice of lament in the Bible is no doubt a measure of the
sense of loss, hurt, and fear that mark our historical moment. Amid
that widespread attention, Scott Ellington brings a peculiarly
alert theological sensibility to the subject. He goes well beyond
conventional critical approaches to see what is at stake in the
practice of faith and what is at risk in the human enterprise of
truth-telling, even when truth-telling shatters and jeopardizes old
certitudes. The force of Ellington's exposition is further enhanced
by his readiness to carry his study into the New Testament, there
to find, amid the good news, the reality of loss and the hope for
newness that only comes with truth-telling. This book merits wide
and sustained attention from those who care about the quality of
faith and the health of our common humanness. -Walter Brueggemann
author of Praying the Psalms, 2nd ed. In Risking Truth, Scott
Ellington continues the important work of exploring the topic of
lament in Scripture. While he stands firmly on the shoulders of the
great scholars who have studied the lament tradition in the past,
his work offers a timeliness and accessibility to the subject that
is rare in scholarly works and much-needed in the twenty-first
century. -Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford author of Introduction to the
Psalms In the Old Testament and in the New, real prayer involves
real courage. It involves facing facts and owning them. It involves
the risk of facing God with them and considering replacing old
familiar convictions with new ones. It involves thinking about God
in new ways. It is easier not to do any of that, but in this book
Scott Ellington shows how the risk is worthwhile. -John Goldingay
author of Israel's Faith About the Contributor(s): Scott Ellington
is Associate Professor of Christian Ministry at Emmanuel College in
Franklin Springs, Georgia. He has served as a missionary educator
in Mexico, England, and Germany. His Ph.D. is in Biblical Studies
from the University of Sheffield.
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