Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health

Description: Finding Jesus in the Storm by John Swinton By listening carefully to the lived experiences of people with severe mental health problems, Finding Jesus in the Storm will open up new understandings and perspectives that challenge current assumptions and draws out fresh perspectives for care, healing, recovery and community. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Drawing from theological reflection on the lives of 30 Christians with severe mental health challenges, (depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia), leading disability theologian John Swinton contends that mental health problems require theological understanding and not just medical intervention.In fact, he argues, it is not necessary to care effectively for Christians experiencing severe mental illness to grasp the theological dimensions of such experiences. Therapy and pharmacology may be helpful, but on their own they are deeply inadequate.By listening carefully to the lived experiences of people with severe mental health problems, FInding Jesus in the Storm will open up new understandings and perspectives that challenge current assumptions and draws out fresh perspectives for care, healing, recovery and community. It is a book about people instead of symptoms, description instead of diagnosis, and lifegiving hope for everyone in the midst of the storm. Author Biography John Swinton is the Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. He is the author of numerous books, including Dementia: Living in the Memories of God, which won the 2016 Michael Ramsay Prize for Theological Writing Review "John Swinton has clearly become the premier pastoral theologian of our time" -- Stanley Hauerwas"John Swinton has listened well to Christians who have struggled with the unrelenting storms of severe mental health challenges. He has heard them tell of their experiences of the presence of God, and of the seeming absence of God, and of faith that grapples with the tensions between the two. Finding Jesus in the Storm provides a thick description of Christian experiences of depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Drawing on the authors experiences as mental health nurse, minister, and practical theologian, these accounts are engaged in conversation with both professional and Christian perspectives, scanning the horizons of mental health care, Christian Scripture, tradition, and church life. This book provides a unique, and hard won, account of journeys through deeply troubled waters. It is essential reading for all who are dissatisfied with superficial and second-hand Christian accounts of mental illness." -- Christopher CH Cook, Durham University, UK"In this remarkable book, John Swinton not only takes the spiritual lives of those living with mental health challenges seriously, he weaves together a beautiful, reflective theology of the cross and resurrection in the light of these experiences. This important and timely book is a must read for all of us who seek to live faithfully in the world today." -- Paula Gooder, Chancellor, St Pauls Cathedral"Finding Jesus in the Storm is a masterful, wise, clear, and compassionate look at the experience of those struggling with mental health challenges such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, and the thin ways these are often described by mental health professionals, Western culture, and the church. Helped by refreshing philosophical insights, we are invited to listen to thicker descriptions of who these people are in relation to a theological, as well as a clinical horizon, and to better understand biblical healing—finding joy in Jesus while suffering. This book should be widely read." -- John R. Peteet, MD, Harvard Medical School"Finding Jesus in the Storm first of all listens deeply, or, as John Swinton says, thickly, to people with mental health challenges and helps a reader see, broaden, and reconstruct both the ways that people of faith might walk with people with mental challenges as well as help people with mental health challenges explore the spiritual dimensions of their own journey. As someone who has both worked with others and my own mental health challenges, this felt very real. Using insights from psychology, sociology, theology, and other disciplines, Swinton once again breaks past multiple forms of stigma and unexamined assumptions to help readers enter a space where we can once again see each other as children of God—pilgrims—doing the best we can to live into the embrace of Gods love." -- Bill Gaventa, author of Disability and Spirituality: Recovering Wholeness Details ISBN0334059747 Author John Swinton Pages 320 Year 2020 ISBN-10 0334059747 ISBN-13 9780334059745 Publication Date 2020-09-30 UK Release Date 2020-09-30 Format Paperback Imprint SCM Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-09-30 NZ Release Date 2020-09-30 Publisher SCM Press Subtitle The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges DEWEY 261.8322 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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