Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 A Lament for Christchurch -Colin Buchanan

PART ONE: Foundations
2 Does Jeremiah Confess, Lament, or Complain? Three Attitudes Towards Wrong -Tim Bulkeley
3 The Unique Contribution of Lamentations 4 in the Book of Lamentations: Metaphor and the Transition from Individual to Communal -Miriam J. Bier
4 Lament Personified: Job in the Bedeutungsnetz of Psalm 22 -Will Kynes
5 The Enemy Lament: A Socio-Cognitive Approach to the Metaphors of Job 16:7-14 -Carlos Patrick Jimenez
6 Blurring the Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Lament and Penitence in Isaiah 63:7-64:11 -Elizabeth Boase
7 The Profit and Loss of Lament: Rethinking Aspects of the Relationship Between Lament and Penitential Prayer -Donald P. Moffat
8 The Doubtful Gain of Penitence: The Fine Line between Lament and Penitential Prayer -Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

PART TWO: Reflections
9 Wrestling with Lamentations in Christian Worship -Robin Parry
10 Liturgy and Lament -Colin Buchanan

PART THREE: Explorations
11 Learning to Lament in Aotearoa -Alistair McKenzie
12 Framing Lament: Providing a Context for the Expression oF Pain -Jeanette Mathews
13 Public Lament -Elizabeth Boase and Steve Taylor
14 Lament in an Age of New Media -Stephen Garner

PART FOUR: Refraction
15 In Search of the Shulamith in the State of Israel: A Lament -Yael Klangwisan

Bibliography

About the Author

Miriam J. Bier, Lecturer in Old Testament, London School of Theology, London, U.K. Elizabeth Boase, Lecturer in Old Testament, Department of Theology, Flinders University; Co-Director of Biblical Studies, Uniting College for Leadership and Theology, Adelaide, Australia. Colin Buchanan, formerly the Bishop of Aston and then of Woolwich; former Principal, St John's College, Nottingham, UK. Tim Bulkeley, Freelance Biblical Scholar teaching as Visitor at Laidlaw Graduate School, Auckland, New Zealand; and Colombo Theological Seminary, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Stephen Garner, Lecturer in Theology in the School of Theology, Faculty of Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Yael Klangwisan, Senior Lecturer in Education, Laidlaw College, Auckland, New Zealand. Will Kynes, Departmental Lecturer in Old Testament Studies, Stipendiary Lecturer at St Peter's College, and Liddon Research Fellow and Tutor of Theology at Keble College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Alistair J. Mackenzie, Senior Lecturer, School of Theology, Mission and Ministry, Laidlaw College, Christchurch Campus, New Zealand. Jeanette Mathews, Lecturer in Old Testament, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia.

Reviews

"[...] this [...] collection represents a brave insistence on the significance of the academic community as a resource to the Church." The Revd. Philip Welsh, Church Times, (5 September 2014) "[...] this is a welcome volume, advancing the discussion and pushing the church to embrace lament alongside attitudes of praise and penitence." Andrew C. Witt, Reviews in Religion and Theology vol. 22, issue 2 , March 2015