Hopeful Lament
Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative
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The Book of Lamentations is a collection of poems that grieve the loss of Jerusalem that’s been destroyed. But the Book of Psalms, at least one third of the Book of Psalms, are songs or prayers of sadness and loss and grief and upset, so that very much of the Old Testament experience of faith is having stuff taken away from us. What’s so interestin
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