
Struggling with God
Mental Health and Christian Spirituality: Foreword by Justin Welby
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Struggling with God
Mental Health and Christian Spirituality: Foreword by Justin Welby
About this book
'Remarkably beautiful and pastoral' JUSTIN WELBY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
'Brimming with wisdom and humanity' DAME SARAH MULLALLY, DBE, BISHOP OF LONDON
Struggling with God gets right to the heart of a great predicament for many Christians. When it feels as if our struggles are overwhelming - and our capacity for faith and hope and love is diminished - how is it possible to maintain, never mind nourish, our relationship with God?
The truth, as this deeply compassionate volume reminds us, is that Jesus came alongside people wrestling with mental health problems. Many familiar conditions, such as anxiety and depression, and more severe ones, including bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia, are addressed by the authors here. Dispelling common myths and misconceptions, they explore the impact such mental health disorders can have on individual Christians, Church and society..
Each chapter includes biblical reflections relevant to its theme, prayers, questions to facilitate individual/group study, and pointers to further reading. In short, the book presents a Christian vision of spiritual and mental wellbeing through prayerful struggling with God.
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Table of contents
- 1 Christian spirituality and mental health
- 2 Stigma and prejudice: giving up negative attitudes
- 3 God in our struggles: finding resilience
- 4 Recovery from mental health challenges
- 5 Mental health and disability: recognizing limits
- 6 Mental health and the mission of the Church
- Conclusion
- Appendix A Some useful resources
- Appendix B Intercessions for mental health