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Living Through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness
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Living Through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness by Kristin M. Swenson Baylor University Press, Waco, 2005. 273 pp. $19.95 (cloth). ISBN 1-932792-15-5.
IN HER STUDY OF Psalms 6, 22, 38, 69, 88, and 102, Swenson invites us to witness and engage in the process of healing. These six psalms offer a "grammar of pain" (p. 74) that embraces the whole self-physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual-in a society that often narrowly defines pain as a physical aberration that can b...
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