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The Dark Womb Karen O'Donnell

The Dark Womb By Karen O'Donnell

The Dark Womb by Karen O'Donnell


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Offering a fresh, original, and creative approach to theology, Karen ODonnell explores the complexity of the miscarrying body and its potential for theological revelation. She offers a re-conception of theologies of providence, prayer, hope, and the body as she reimagines theology out of these messy origins.

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The Dark Womb: Re-Conceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss by Karen O'Donnell

LONGLISTED FOR THE MICHAEL RAMSEY PRIZE 2023 The experience of reproductive loss raises a series of profoundly theological questions: how can God have a plan for my life? Why didnt God answer my prayers? How can I have hope after such an experience? Who am I after such a loss? Sadly, these are questions that, along with reproductive loss, have largely been ignored in theology. Karen ODonnell tackles these questions head on, drawing on her own experiences of repeated reproductive loss as she re-conceives theology from the perspective of the miscarrying person. Offering a fresh, original, and creative approach to theology, ODonnell explores the complexity of the miscarrying body and its potential for theological revelation. She offers a re-conception of theologies of providence, prayer, hope, and the body as she reimagines theology out of these messy origins. This book is for those who have experiences such losses and those who minister to them. But it is also for all those who want to encounter a creative and imaginative approach to theology and the life of faith in our messy, complex world.

The Dark Womb Reviews

With the publication of The Dark Womb, Karen ODonnell inaugurates the definitive end of the taboo on discussing reproductive loss theologically. ODonnell weaves autoethnography, feminist analysis, biblical interpretation, and cultural critical into a theological account that challenges us to rethink a providential God, given the suffering of bleeding, miscarrying bodies. No more religious platitudes. ODonnell leads us from the darkness of reproductive trauma into the deep of an apophatic remaking of the self and of God. -- Margaret D. Kamitsuka, Oberlin College, USA
"Karen ODonnell draws on her own embodied experience to break the silence with which theology has typically treated miscarriage and other forms of reproductive loss. She bears witness to Gods presence and voice in these situations in a most profound and compelling way. In doing so, she mothers a theology capable of lifting others out of the exhaustion and invisible grief that so often follow in the wake of these traumas, and of un-saying the confused theologies they so often face. " -- Siobhan Garrigan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

About Karen O'Donnell

Dr Karen ODonnell is Coordinator at the Centre for Contemporary Spirituality, Sarum College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix Foreword by Heather Walton xi Introduction: Re-Conceiving Theology Through Reproductive Loss 1 1. The (Theological) Silence Surrounding Reproductive Loss 13 2. Reproductive Loss as a Trauma 32 3. Reimagining Miscarriage: Embodied Agents and Moral Failures 59 4. Providence, Petitionary Prayer and Pregnancy Loss 77 5. Miss-Carried Hopes 110 6. What About Hannah? 135 7. Body Theologies 143 8. Teach Us How To Pray 162 9. Aftermath: The Post-Traumatic Remaking of My Self 186 Bibliography 190 Index 201

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GOR012874438
9780334060932
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The Dark Womb: Re-Conceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss by Karen O'Donnell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SCM Press
2022-02-28
192
Long-listed for Michael Ramsey Prize 2023
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