Practicing Lament (Cascade Companions)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In a faith focused on resurrection hope, patient endurance, and victory in Christ, is there any room for pain, doubt, and anger? In Scripture, lament is the prayer that makes that room. Not only is lament one of the most common forms of prayer in the Old Testament, it's also woven deeply into the fabric of the New Testament and the Christian way. Lament is the cry for all those who ache over the way things are but aren't content to let them stay that way. It's the prayer for all the ways that the kingdom has not yet come, in the hope that God's justice and peace will prevail--someday.
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- Seeks to persuade readers not only that lament is worth knowing about, but also that it is worth practicing
- Attempts to introduce the audience to lament as a form of prayer, especially in the context of Christianity
- Explores how lament is woven deeply into the fabric of the New Testament and is an essential part of the Christian life
- Tearing Heaven Open
- Jesus Wept
- Your Kingdom Come
- Pennitence and Protest
- Lord, Teach How to Mourn
In this warmly written and well-researched book, Professor Eklund invites into the biblical practice of lament. In lament, we join our heartfelt cries with those of the psalmists, the Prophets, and with Jesus himself. As one who has learned the language of lament, I am thankful that this book teaches us how to lament as a healthy spiritual discipline. She also explains how lament helps us engage racial injustice and unrest as well as our global pandemic. This is both a timely and timeless treatment.
—Douglas Groothuis, author of Walking through Twilight: A Wife’s Illness—A Philosopher’s Lament
The absence of lament in the American Christian church has resulted in a noticeable theological gap and a failure to engage the full breadth and depth of biblical Christian faith. Dr. Rebekah Eklund brings the rigor of academic inquiry balanced with a pastoral heart that offers the necessary corrective to this dysfunctional ecclesial reality. Practicing Lament is an important work not only in what it teaches from the depth and integrity of Dr. Eklund’s academic work, but also how it is offered, with great sensitivity and spiritual depth. Lament is the spiritual discipline needed by the church and this text offers an essential guide for this long-lost spiritual practice.
—Soong-Chan Rah, author of Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
I can’t imagine a more needful book for our time than this one by Rebekah Eklund. So much in our broken world demands to be lamented. Yet because so few of us grew up in families or churches that modeled healthy lament, we need to be trained. Eklund serves here as a theologically skilled, pastorally wise, and immensely helpful guide, training readers in the way of faithful lament—for God’s sake and our own!
—W. David O. Taylor, author of Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life
- Title: Practicing Lament
- Author: Rebekah Eklund
- Series: Cascade Companions
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 104
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Laments in the Bible; Suffering › Religious aspects--Christianity; Bereavement › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781725272583, 9781725272590, 9781725272606, 172527258X, 1725272598, 1725272601
- Resource ID: LLS:PRACTICINGLAMENT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-27T19:33:55Z