Liturgy in the Shadows of Trauma: Reckoning with the Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis New Titles - Fall 2023 Systematic Theology draws on writing

Systematic Theology draws on writing of the most distinguished theologians of Latin America

with a rich hermeneutic of suspicion

Written for readers deeply concerned for the future of the church

she opens up the meaning of the texts and demonstrates what they may have meant to the disciples and to the community that became the early church

Liturgy in the Shadows of Trauma: Reckoning with the Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis New Titles - Fall 2023 Systematic Theology draws on writingCatholic Media Association Book Award Winner, Third Place, Liturgy Worship Participation in liturgy is often described and prescribed as a source of comfort and healing for survivors of clergy perpetrated sexual abuse (CPSA). However, as Liturgy in the Shadows of Trauma demonstrates, the diverse forms of trauma inflicted by the sex abuse crisis threaten the ability of liturgical worship to function as the source of grace that it is meant to be. The