TY - BOOK AU - Shooter,Susan TI - How Survivors of Abuse Relate to God: The Authentic Spirituality of the Annihilated Soul T2 - Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology SN - 9781409441274 (electronic bk.) AV - BV4596.A2 .S56 2012 U1 - 261.8327082 PY - 2012/// CY - Farnham PB - Ashgate Publishing Ltd KW - Abused women -- Religious life KW - Adult child abuse victims -- Religious life KW - Child sexual abuse -- Religious aspects -- Christianity KW - Sexual abuse victims -- Religious life KW - Religion KW - Abused women KW - Religious life KW - Adult child abuse victims KW - Sexual abuse victims KW - Child sexual abuse KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Christianity / General KW - Electronic books N1 - Description based upon print version of record; Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: What Lies Beneath; 2 Knocking at the Door: Presenting Issues; 3 Finding the Right Key: A Grounded Qualitative Design; 6 At Home with God: Marguerite Porete's Mirror; 7 The Authentic Spirituality of the Annihilated Soul; 8 What Lies Ahead: Conclusions and Implications; Epilogue; Bibliography; Author Index; Scripture Index; Subject Index N2 - Grappling with theological issues raised by abuse, this book argues that the Church should be challenged, and ministered to, by survivors. Paying careful attention to her interviews with Christian women survivors, Shooter finds that through painful experiences of transformation they have surprisingly become potential agents of transformation for others. Shooter brings the survivors' narratives into dialogue with the story of Job and with medieval mystic Marguerite Porete's spirituality of 'annihilation'. Culminating in an engagement with contemporary feminist theology concerning power and powe UR - http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=956303 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=466028 ER -