{"id":1808,"date":"2012-04-30T11:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T11:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:32:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T11:32:35","slug":"mary-magdalenes-tears-a-homiletics-of-remaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2012\/04\/mary-magdalenes-tears-a-homiletics-of-remaining.html","title":{"rendered":"Mary Magdalene’s Tears: A Homiletics of Remaining"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been wondering why FSS has been a bit catatonic in the last couple of days, it’s because I’ve been writing a final paper for my women’s theology class- about how to preach to those whose lives have been touched by trauma and who therefore dwell in a “middle space” of “life in death” and “death in life.” \u00a0Shelly Rambo’s work, Spirit and Trauma: A Theology of Remaining<\/em>, which argues for a retrieval of the meaning and importance of Holy Saturday along with a so-called “Middle Spirit” who ministers during Christ’s absence (in hell) in this place in between death and resurrection, lays the central theological groundwork for a homiletical infrastructure of sorts. \u00a0Rambo applies the insights of trauma theory to her enterprise, asking how “trauma” (which by definition means no one-time event, but rather the ongoing living out of the initial trauma) problematizes and enriches our understanding of redemption. I have taken Rambo’s theological framework and asked how it might perform in the pulpit.<\/p>\n

Since the brainy nerds or insomniacs in our midst might enjoy taking a look, here is my paper:\u00a0https:\/\/mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com\/attachment\/?ui=2&ik=6e7ae48b02&view=att&th=13702f33e65e87bb&attid=0.1.0&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P8QBljIAU6Dd8xEb6IkRY2l&sadet=1335784405779&sads=Y-ZPSYTEjjz8joul5qxqgmIltro&sadssc=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been wondering why FSS has been a bit catatonic in the last couple of days, it’s because I’ve been writing a final paper for my women’s theology class- about how to preach to those whose lives have been touched by trauma and who therefore dwell in a “middle space” of “life in death”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,69,43,249,122,5],"tags":[643,644,642,2450,641,253],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-good-news","category-humor","category-preaching","category-theology","category-women","tag-homiletics","tag-homiletics-festival","tag-post-traumatic-stress-disorder","tag-redemption","tag-trauma","tag-women-preachers"],"yoast_head":"\nMary Magdalene's Tears: A Homiletics of Remaining - Fellowship of Saints and Sinners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2012\/04\/mary-magdalenes-tears-a-homiletics-of-remaining.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mary Magdalene's Tears: A Homiletics of Remaining - 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