Mainwaring, Simon.

Mark, Mutuality, and Mental Health : Encounters with Jesus. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (375 pages) - Semeia Studies ; v.79 . - Semeia Studies .

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Relational Dynamics of Poor Mental Health: Assessing Existing Paradigms -- Mutuality: A Postcolonial Praxis for the Relational Dynamics of Poor Mental Health -- Dialogue and Difference: Mutuality and Biblical Hermeneutics -- Identity, Labels, and Resistance: Mark 3:1-6 and 3:19b-35 -- Negotiating Marginal Agency: Mark 5:21-43 and 7:24-30 -- Dialogue and Mutuality: Mark 5:1-20 and 15:1-5 -- Mutuality and Mark: Reflections Textual and Contextual -- Appendix: Reading Group Transcripts -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects.

Focusing on mutuality and seeking to re-imagine power relations, this work explores the Gospel of Mark by drawing together power-aware biblical scholarship, postcolonial theory, and the insights of readers with poor mental health who have first-hand experience of social structures of exclusion.

9781589839861


Bible. -- Mark -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. -- Mark -- Postcolonial criticism.
Mental health -- Biblical teaching.
Power (Christian theology) -- Biblical teaching.


Electronic books.

BS2585

226.3/06