The Trauma of Doctrine

New Calvinism, Religious Abuse, and the Experience of God

Paul Maxwell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

398 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-0423-7 (ISBN)

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New Calvinism and the Victim investigates the difficult relationship between traumatic experiences, maximalist religious beliefs, and the experience of God. This project highlights the dynamic and conflictive interplay between the timeless realities of abuse, divine control, and the psychology of religious participation.

New Calvinism and the Victim endeavors into the overlapping areas of psychological trauma and systematic theology by investigating the dynamic interplay between the psychology of holding maximalist theological beliefs and recovery from abuse trauma. Maxwell examines the effect that the Calvinist belief can have upon the traumatized Christian who negatively internalizes its superlative doctrines of divine control and human moral corruption. The project seeks to understand these intersecting realities by investigating a triptych of inquiries: From a theological perspective, can a Christian lose his faith because of a traumatic experience? Moreover, what are the consequences of such a loss? And, how could Reformed theology exacerbate this religious detachment?

Ultimately, the research suggests that there are experiential harmonies between the belief in Reformed theology and the experience of trauma, which are neither existentially necessary nor therapeutically negligible—rather, they are conceptually likely based on both philosophical analysis and psychological research.

Paul Maxwell is an independent researcher.

Part 1: Reformed Theology

Chapter 1: Maximalist Conceptions of Divine Control and Human Corruption

Chapter 2: The Unique Obstacle of Reformed Theodicy

Part 2: Traumatized Faith

Chapter 3: The Imagination and Its Operations

Chapter 4: Faith and the Imagination

Chapter 5: How Trauma Works

Chapter 6: Trauma in The Religious Imagination

Part 3: Pistic Resilience

Chapter 7: Perseverence And Resilience: Introducing Pistic Resilience

Chapter 8: Passive Pistic Resilience: Divine Patience with Distrupted Faith

Chapter 9: Active Pistic Resilience: Spiritual Fortitude Within Disrupted Faith

Part 4: Pistic Recovery

Chapter 10: The Traumatized Christian and the Reformed Community

Chapter 11: Recovering a Sanctified Notion of Personal Autonomy

Chapter 12: Autonomy in Community

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Vorwort	Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 227 mm
Gewicht	703 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	1-9787-0423-2 / 1978704232
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-0423-7 / 9781978704237
Zustand	Neuware