Contemplative Resilience: Approaching a Professional Trauma with Simone Weil's Concept of Attention'
This paper describes the difficult and confusing reception of a research report written by the author and commissioned by a diocese in the Church of England. It goes on to discuss the traumatic effect this reception had on the researcher and how the strong feelings evoked were worked through in dial...
| Published in: | Practical theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2017]
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| In: |
Practical theology
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KBF British Isles KDE Anglican Church RB Church office; congregation ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethnographic Research
B Attention B Simone Weil B Trauma |
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| Summary: | This paper describes the difficult and confusing reception of a research report written by the author and commissioned by a diocese in the Church of England. It goes on to discuss the traumatic effect this reception had on the researcher and how the strong feelings evoked were worked through in dialogue with Simone Weil's concept of attention' as developed in her 1942 essay, Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God'. By connecting the experience of attending to the depth and darkness of the problem with the Anglican liturgy of confession and absolution, the article relates the discovery of transformation in the author and how she finds the freedom to learn from the experience and move on. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2017.1282649 |