The Dark Womb
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The Dark Womb

Re-Conceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

The Dark Womb

Re-Conceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss

About this book

The experience of reproductive loss raises a series of profoundly theological questions: how can God have a plan for my life? Why didn't God answer my prayers? How can I have hope after such an experience? Who am I after such a loss? Sadly, these are questions that, along with reproductive loss, have largely been ignored in theology. Karen O'Donnell tackles these questions head on, drawing on her own experiences of repeated reproductive loss as she re-conceives theology from the perspective of the miscarrying person.Offering a fresh, original, and creative approach to theology, O'Donnell explores the complexity of the miscarrying body and its potential for theological revelation. She offers a re-conception of theologies of providence, prayer, hope, and the body as she reimagines theology out of these messy origins.This book is for those who have experiences such losses and those who minister to them. But it is also for all those who want to encounter a creative and imaginative approach to theology and the life of faith in our messy, complex world.

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright information
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction: Re-Conceiving Theology Through Reproductive Loss
  7. 1. The (Theological) Silence Surrounding Reproductive Loss
  8. 2. Reproductive Loss as a Trauma
  9. 3. Reimagining Miscarriage: Embodied Agents and Moral Failures
  10. 4. Providence, Petitionary Prayer and Pregnancy Loss
  11. 5. Miss-Carried Hopes
  12. 6. What About Hannah?
  13. 7. Body Theologies
  14. 8. Teach Us How To Pray
  15. Aftermath: The Post-Traumatic Remaking of My Self
  16. Bibliography