PostTraumatic Jesus, David W. Peters
PostTraumatic Jesus, David W. Peters
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Post-Traumatic Jesus
Reading the Gospel With the Wounded

Author: David W. Peters

Narrator: Jim Denison

Unabridged: 4 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2023

Synopsis

After twenty years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, a global pandemic, protests against racial violence, and frequent shootings, more Americans than ever are living with the effects of trauma. The good news is that Jesus was born and died in a traumatized world, and his story speaks forever to wounded people worldwide. Army veteran and Episcopal priest David Peters explores Jesus' life story through the post-traumatic lens with which the Gospel writers first wrote it—as people who had seen their leader executed by the same oppressive government that had already shrouded their whole lives in anxiety and fear. Meeting the post-traumatic Jesus—the only Jesus the world has ever known—can be a balm to the wounds of modern Christians and spiritual seekers.

About David W. Peters

David W. Peters served as an enlisted Marine and Army Chaplain, who deployed to Iraq in 2005. He is the author of several books, notably Death Letter: God, Sex, and War and Post-Traumatic God: How the Church Cares for People Who Have Been to Hell and Back. Today he serves as the vicar of St. Joan of Arc Episcopal Church, a new church plant in the diocese of Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by R.F. Gammon on January 23, 2025

A few theological quibbles, but this was amazing. Would recommend to anyone dealing with PTSD or C-PTSD.......more

Goodreads review by David on July 05, 2023

A Fresh Resource for Caring Congregations Coping with Trauma As a journalist, I have been covering religious and cultural diversity for half a century and, now more than ever, I am finding a growing number of congregations focusing on the need to help folks with trauma find reassurance, resilience an......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on March 20, 2023

That Jesus is fully God has never been difficult to accept, but often, his humanity gets sidelined. Jesus is both fully God and fully human and this book really humanized Jesus in a way that isn’t often seen. I could not put this book down. David Peters tells the story of Jesus’ life through the len......more

Goodreads review by Levi on May 08, 2024

Post-Traumatic Jesus: A Healing Gospel for the Wounded by David W. Peters is a book I feel generally conflicted about. Peters seems to propose a post-traumatic reading of the Gospels in conjunction with a memoir like reading of these stories alongside his own journey with PTSD and the trauma he carr......more

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