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Resurrecting Wounds - by Shelly Rambo (Paperback)

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  • The Gospel of John's account of doubting Thomas is often told as a lesson about the veracity and triumph of Christian faith.
  • About the Author: Shelly Rambo is Associate Professor of Theology at Boston University.
  • 196 Pages
  • Religion + Beliefs, Christian Theology

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About the Book



By returning again and again to Christ's woundedness, we discover ways to live with our own.



Book Synopsis



The Gospel of John's account of doubting Thomas is often told as a lesson about the veracity and triumph of Christian faith. And yet it is a story about wounds. Interpretations of this Gospel narrative, by focusing on Christ's victory in the resurrection, reflect Christianity's unease with the wounds that remain on the body of the risen Jesus. By returning readers to this familiar passage, Resurrecting Wounds expands the scope of the Upper Room to the present world where wounds mark all of humanity.

Shelly Rambo rereads the Thomas story and the history of its interpretation through the lens of trauma studies to reflect on the ways that the wounds of race, gender, and war persist. Wounds do not simply go away, even though a close reading of John Calvin reveals his theological investments in removing wounds. This erasure reflects a dominant mode of Christian thinking, but it is not the only Christian reading. By contrast, Macrina's scar, in Gregory of Nyssa's account of her life and death, displays how resurrection can be inscribed in wounds, particularly in the illumination of her body after her death. The scar, produced in and through a mother's touch, recalls a healing, linking resurrection to the work of tending wounds. Much like Christ's wounds and Macrina's scar, racial wounds can be found on the skin of America's collective life. The wounds of racial histories, unhealed, resurface again and again. The wounds of war persist as well, despite a cultural calculus that links the suffering of a soldier with that of Christ. Again, the visceral display of Jesus' wounds, when placed at the center of Thomas' encounter in the Upper Room, enacts a vision of resurrecting that addresses the real harm of the real wounds of war.

The powerful Upper Room images of resurrection--encounters with wounds, the invitation to touch, and the formation of a community--present visions of truth-telling and of healing that grapple with the pressing questions of wounds surfacing in the midst of human encounters with violence, suffering, and trauma. While traditional accounts of resurrection in Christian theology have focused on the afterlife, this book forges a theology of resurrection wounds in the afterliving. By returning again and again to Christ's woundedness, we discover ways to live with our own.



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...Rambo exceeds expectations with a masterful and surprisingly daring venture to reconsider theologies of resurrection in the 'afterlife' or 'ongoingness' of trauma.

--Amy McLaughlin-Sheasby "Homiletic"

An important and beautifully written contribution to current theological discourse on trauma.

--Hannah Jones "Reading Religion"

Rambo pushes the theological envelope in order to give us space to breathe, rest, and heal. Her writing is so delicately constructed that even the most resistant reader will be forced to stop and consider her groundbreaking interpretation of the encounter between Jesus and Thomas and the reality of wounds. Both this book, as well as her earlier one (Spirit and Trauma), should be required reading for seminarians, clergy, counselors and others who minister to people navigating the aftermath of trauma.

--Paula Owens Parker "Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology"

The breadth and creativity of Rambo's intertextual analysis is exciting, and her multivalent reading of John 20 will undoubtedly spur reflection on suffering, resurrection, and salvation.

--Jessica Coblentz "Horizons"



About the Author



Shelly Rambo is Associate Professor of Theology at Boston University.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .45 Inches (D)
Weight: .65 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 196
Genre: Religion + Beliefs
Sub-Genre: Christian Theology
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Theme: Anthropology
Format: Paperback
Author: Shelly Rambo
Language: English
Street Date: October 1, 2018
TCIN: 89037516
UPC: 9781481306799
Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-9632
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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