Tears: Towards a Biblical Theology

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Lynch, Gay Ord Pollock. “Why Do Your Eyes Not Run Like a River?: Ritual Tears in Ancient and Modern Greek Funerary Traditions.” in Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination, 67-82. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

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Miller, Calvin. Preaching: The Art of Narrative Exposition. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006.

Miller, Patrick D. “Heaven’s Prisoners: The Lament as Christian Prayer.” in Lament: Reclaiming Practices in Pulpit, Pew, and Public Square. Edited by Sally A. Brown and Patrick D. Miller, 15-26. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.

Moltmann, Jürgen. The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

O’Conner, Kathleen. The Wisdom Literature. Wilmington, DE: Glazier, 1988.

Patton, Kimberley Christine and John Stratton Hawley. Introduction to Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination, 1-23. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

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Read, Kay Almere. “Productive Tears: Weeping Speech, Water, and the Underworld in the Mexica Tradition.” in Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination, 52-66. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Ryken, Leland, James C. Wilhoit, and Tremper Longman, III. “Tears” in Dictionary of Biblical Imagery, 845-847. Downers Grove: IVP, 1998.

Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford, 1985.

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Van Vught, Mark. “Why Only Humans Weep: The Science Behind Our Tears.” Psychology Today. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/naturally-selected/201305/why-only-humans-weep-the-science-behind-our-tears (accessed May 12, 2014).

Waddell, Robby. “Hearing what the Spirit Says to the Churches: Profile of a Pentecostal Reader of the Apocolypse.” In Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Reader. Edited by Lee Roy Martin, 171-203. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2013.

Ware, Bishop Kallistos. “An Obscure Matter: The Mystery of Tears in Orthodox Spirituality.” in Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination, 242-254. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

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[ci] Hall, 139.

[cii] Alister McGrath, Bridge-Building: Creative Christian Apologetics (Leicester, England: IVP, 1992), 51-73.

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Category: Biblical Studies, Summer 2017