Hope from a Body in Pain

This book explores the phenomenon of hope in the context of long-term ill-health. It brings medicine, psychology and theology in dialogue with the voices of those with first-hand experience of chronic pain.

Lena Maria Lorenz is a researcher with a PhD from the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK.

Preface Introduction, or When a body in pain calls for hope Part I: Existing voices on pain and hope 1. The biomedical body in pain 2. The psychological mind of hope Interim conclusion 1, or The absence of a hoping person in pain 3. The body in pain in traditional, ecumenical theologies of hope 4. The body in pain in a modern, Reformed theology of hope Interim conclusion 2, or God as the beginning and end of hope PART II: New voices on hope and pain 5. Empirical approaches to hope and pain 6. Lives marked by pain and fuelled by hope: New narratives 7. Conceptualising hope at the intersection of theology, psychology and medical narrative Closing synopsis, or When hope dwells in a body in pain Appendix Bibliography. Index