TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shooter,Susan
TI  - How Survivors of Abuse Relate to God: the Authentic Spirituality of the Annihilated Soul 
T2  - Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology
SN  - 9781409441274
AV  - BV4596.A2 S56 2012
U1  - 261.8327082 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate Publishing Ltd
KW  - Abused women
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Adult child abuse victims
KW  - Sexual abuse victims
KW  - Child sexual abuse
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Femmes victimes de violence
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Enfants maltraités devenus adultes
KW  - Victimes d'abus sexuels
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Life
KW  - Social Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and indexes; Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: What Lies Beneath; 2 Knocking at the Door: Presenting Issues; 3 Finding the Right Key: A Grounded Qualitative Design; 6 At Home with God: Marguerite Porete's Mirror; 7 The Authentic Spirituality of the Annihilated Soul; 8 What Lies Ahead: Conclusions and Implications; Epilogue; Bibliography; Author Index; Scripture Index; Subject Index
N2  - Grappling with theological issues raised by abuse, this book argues that the Church should be challenged, and ministered to, by survivors. Paying careful attention to her interviews with Christian women survivors, Shooter finds that through painful experiences of transformation they have surprisingly become potential agents of transformation for others. Shooter brings the survivors' narratives into dialogue with the story of Job and with medieval mystic Marguerite Porete's spirituality of 'annihilation'. Culminating in an engagement with contemporary feminist theology concerning power and powe
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