Faith Without Explanations
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Faith Without Explanations

What Disaster Work Taught Me About God

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eBook - ePub

Faith Without Explanations

What Disaster Work Taught Me About God

About this book

The point and purpose of Faith Without Explanations: What Disaster Work Taught Me About God is to explore what happens to faith when people spend prolonged time near catastrophe, grief, helplessness, and human suffering that cannot be explained away. Drawing from years of disaster spiritual care and ministry experience, the book challenges simplistic religious answers and examines how disaster work often wounds theology before it wounds emotional functioning. Rather than attempting to defend easy certainty, the book invites readers into a more honest and compassionate faith shaped by presence, lament, humility, and accompaniment. It seeks to give language to the spiritual exhaustion, moral injury, unanswered questions, and emotional disorientation experienced by survivors, caregivers, responders, clergy, and anyone who has struggled to reconcile suffering with belief in a loving God. At its core, the book argues that faith does not survive catastrophe by becoming more certain but by becoming more human. It offers a vision of spirituality rooted not in explanations but in the willingness to remain present with one another inside pain, grief, and unfinishedness.

Information

Publisher
Resource Publications
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9798385277964
9798385277971
eBook ISBN
9798385277988
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Ministry

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Prelude—When Explanations Stop Working
  3. Chapter 1—The God I Thought I Knew
  4. Chapter 2—Useful Beliefs
  5. Chapter 3—Repetition
  6. Chapter 4—Prayer After Triage
  7. Chapter 5—God and the Body Count
  8. Chapter 6—Systems That Break People
  9. Chapter 7—Anger That Would Not Leave
  10. Chapter 8—The End of “Everything Happens for a Reason”
  11. Chapter 9—Silence
  12. Chapter 10—Presence Without Answers
  13. Chapter 11—Lament as Practice
  14. Chapter 12—Hope, Spoken Carefully
  15. Chapter 13—Staying
  16. Chapter 14—Belief After Exposure
  17. Chapter 15—Faith Without Explanations
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. About the Author

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