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Positive Loss and Tragic Memory: On the Preservation of Community
Author(s) -
Gregersen Niels Henrik
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12356
Subject(s) - tragedy (event) , argument (complex analysis) , vulnerability (computing) , doctrine , vernacular , environmental ethics , resilience (materials science) , vitality , gospel , narrative , community resilience , sociology , epistemology , history , law and economics , philosophy , political science , law , computer security , theology , linguistics , computer science , social science , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , redundancy (engineering) , thermodynamics , operating system
Theologies of disaster have to recognize exceptional disasters in the framework of a general human exposure to vulnerability, while engaging in the formation of human and religious resilience. Resilience is about “bouncing back and forward” in and through precautionary and self‐adaptive responses to disasters. Drawing up a distinction between personal tragedies and socially shared disasters, the basic argument is that the reconnection of disrupted communities lies at the center of both tragedy and disaster. This article describes a post‐secular theology of tragedy and disaster that mainly stays in a vernacular language, referring to basic assumptions of the gospel while refraining from using the heavier repertoires of Christian doctrine.