Liminal Living
Liminal Living
Dr. Thomas J Rundel
S2 E9: Dr Dave Beach: Deconstructing from Suffering
1 hour 28 minutes Posted Jun 11, 2023 at 12:19 pm.
: Introductions
: Faith Roots
: Bad Songs that shaped his theology and expectation
: “Faith” insulating us from reality
: The First domino of deconstruction: Congregation vs my Dad
: Power dynamics in churches
: Pastoral Authority
: A dissertation to make space for those who suffer
: Jesus, the Man of Sorrows
: Losing my wife to cancer
: Trauma: shattering the assumptive world
: Doubt, struggle, unbelief, AS a form of faith
: The Role of God within suffering: Incarnation and Trinity
: Suffering leads to awakening, but what about trauma damage?
: Post Traumatic Growth
: 5 Views of suffering in the Christian journey
: Spiritual bypassing, disassociation, and transcendence
: Suffering as initiation into reality, and God
: Labels vs essence. Christian as noun and not adjective
: Suffering dissolving illusion, bringing us into contact with reality
: How is my faith more than a set of propositions?
: Hope is not an emotion but an imagination
: Conclusion
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Dr Dave Beach lost his wife to cancer, and it triggered a deconstruction of his assumptions about the world. He found out that the propositions he claimed were not embedded deep in his own soul. He went on a journey to make sense of this event in light of his faith and eventually wrote a dissertation on the topic of Christianity and suffering with the hopes of meeting people at the intersection of their faith and suffering with hospitality and care. Dave is a retired counselor, college teacher, a current author, speaker, chaplain, and spiritual formation presenter, as well as an executive director of Four Health Family Resource Center Inc, in Saranac MI.
You can find Dave’s book here: https://rb.gy/9ri2p and
You can Dave’s Dissertation here: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/dmin/281/
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