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OverviewOffering a model of care that the church can use with survivors of sexual abuse, this supportive book is backed up by René Girard's Mimetic Theory throughout. The book proposes that the treatment survivors receive in churches could be greatly improved if instead of adding to a survivor's sense of guilt, difference or isolation or trying to change survivors' thoughts, feelings or behaviour they adopt the role of God as benevolent other. It shows that by adopting these beliefs churches can move past unintentional scapegoating of sexual abuse survivors and into a healing community where survivors feel included on churchgoers' journeys towards health and wholeness. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine Beaumont , Christopher C. H. Cook , Steve BeaumontPublisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.220kg ISBN: 9781785925016ISBN 10: 1785925016 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 21 August 2020 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"Too often churches confuse healing with conformity, pastoral care with the prescription of ideals, and located the problem with the survivor, not the community. Catherine Beaumont's stunning intervention shows how the problem is collectively owned in ways which stem from our rivalry with God and each other, and why support must begin in non-rivalrous love. Experientially, theoretically, and lovingly driven, this book should shape how we think about church. -- Dr Marcus Pound, Associate Professor of Catholic Theology, Durham University What glorious sanity! Catherine Beaumont shows how the relationship between survivors of abuse and their Churches goes to the heart of the Gospel. Wonderfully clearly written, full of vivid local examples and the wisdom of lived experience. Any churchgoer could benefit personally from this book, as I did, yet no expert need be ashamed to learn from its pages. -- James Alison, Catholic Priest and Theologian Dr Beaumont delivers a powerful call for change. While churches continue to protect their reputation for righteousness-framing survivors as 'problematic'-the damage of abuse is compounded. Her uplifting vision for Gospel communities that vindicate rather than scapegoat is modelled on God ""who never comes against us"". Love in action. -- Rev Dr Susan Shooter, author of ‘How Survivors of Abuse Relate to God: the Authentic Spirituality of the Annihilated Soul’." Too often churches confuse healing with conformity, pastoral care with the prescription of ideals, and located the problem with the survivor, not the community. Catherine Beaumont's stunning intervention shows how the problem is collectively owned in ways which stem from our rivalry with God and each other, and why support must begin in non-rivalrous love. Experientially, theoretically, and lovingly driven, this book should shape how we think about church. -- Dr Marcus Pound, Associate Professor of Catholic Theology, Durham University Author InformationCatherine Beaumont works for a small Leeds-based charity. She has recently completed a doctorate at the University of Durham. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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