Lena Maria Lorenz

Hope from a Body in Pain (eBook, PDF)

Theology, Psychology and Medical Narratives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the phenomenon of hope in the context of long-term ill-health. It brings medicine, psychology and theology in dialogue with the voices of those with first-hand experience of chronic pain. The chapters reflect on existing psychological literature on hope, the theological perspectives of three key figures - Augustine, Aquinas and Moltmann - and interview-based empirical research with persons who live with chronic pain. In a theological framework, hope is a complex and dynamic force which incorporates and yet goes beyond any understandings within the cognitive-behavioural framework of psychology. The author challenges a highly individualistic and positivistic view on hope and argues for hope as intuitive, reflective, active and communal. The book will be of particular interest to scholars working at the intersection of medicine, psychology and theology, as well as those in the medical humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040768570
• Artikelnr.: 76007730

Autorenporträt

Lena Maria Lorenz is a researcher with a PhD from the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction, or When a body in pain calls for hope Part I:
Existing voices on pain and hope 1. The biomedical body in pain 2. The
psychological mind of hope Interim conclusion 1, or The absence of a hoping
person in pain 3. The body in pain in traditional, ecumenical theologies of
hope 4. The body in pain in a modern, Reformed theology of hope Interim
conclusion 2, or God as the beginning and end of hope PART II: New voices
on hope and pain 5. Empirical approaches to hope and pain 6. Lives marked
by pain and fuelled by hope: New narratives 7. Conceptualising hope at the
intersection of theology, psychology and medical narrative Closing
synopsis, or When hope dwells in a body in pain Appendix Bibliography.
Index