Christ's Body Keeps the Score: Trauma-Informed Theology and the Neuroscience of PTSD

Recent findings in neuroscience and psychology indicate that "the body keeps the score" of PTSD. Concurrently, trauma-informed theology to date has deployed pneumatology to explain how God experiences trauma in the Christian narrative of salvation. Yet, in Christian theology the divine per...

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Main Author: Hill, Preston (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain 2023
In: TheoLogica
Year: 2023, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 102-120
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NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit
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