Prophetic Lament, SoongChan Rah
Prophetic Lament, SoongChan Rah
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Prophetic Lament
A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

Author: Soong-Chan Rah, Brenda Salter McNeil

Narrator: Soong-Chan Rah

Unabridged: 7 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2022

Synopsis

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When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first full sermon series was a six-week exposition of the book of Lamentations. Preaching on an obscure, depressing Old Testament book was probably not the most seeker-sensitive way to launch a church. But it shaped their community with a radically countercultural perspective.

The American church avoids lament. But lament is a missing, essential component of Christian faith. Lament recognizes struggles and suffering, that the world is not as it ought to be. Lament challenges the status quo and cries out for justice against existing injustices.

Soong-Chan Rah's prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church's relationship with a suffering world. It critiques our success-centered triumphalism and calls us to repent of our hubris. And it opens up new ways to encounter the other. Hear the prophet's lament as the necessary corrective for Christianity's future.

About Soong-Chan Rah

Soong-Chan Rah is Robert Munger Professor of Evangelism at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Previously, he served as Milton B. Engebretson Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of Prophetic Lament, The Next Evangelicalism, and Many Colors, as well as coauthor of Unsettling Truths, Forgive Us, and Return to Justice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Akash on January 02, 2019

A very good book, but don't read it like I did. Read it with people, in a small group. The weakness of this book is that it calls to action, but it necessitates a community response, and as an individual, you can feel a little powerless. Still, excellent work and especially for Christians who are ju......more

Goodreads review by Luke on March 29, 2017

I've been looking forward to this for a while -both because I loved The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity and because of a deep interest in the subject at hand- and while I did enjoy it, it wasn't necessarily what I had hoped. I think my expectations had been a......more

Goodreads review by James on December 16, 2015

One of my dialogue partners in Advent has been Soong-Chan Rah's Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times. Rah teaches at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, is a sought after speaker and the author of The Next Evangelicalism (IVP, 2009). In this earlier book, Rah explored the c......more

Goodreads review by SK on June 13, 2022

I was going to give it 4 stars, but the lament at the end was worth the whole book. 4 stars was the thought bc it felt a little disjointed, this simply could have been due to the fact that I am writing the review 6 months after I have read a majority of the book. I have read alot about lament over t......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on October 18, 2020

easily the best book i’ve read this year. i read a review that said this book should be read in community & i will GLADLY join any book club or small group study where someone is walking us through this. it was written in 2015, but it feels so tailor made for this moment right now. there was so much......more

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