S2 E9: Dr Dave Beach: Deconstructing from Suffering

Liminal Living

English - June 11, 2023 12:19 - 1 hour - 81.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
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Previous Episode: S2 E8: Jacci Turner: Deconstruction as an Essential Stage of Faith Formation

Next Episode: S2 E10: Rohadi Nagassar: Race and Deconstructing Whiteness

Dr Dave Beach lost his wife to cancer, and it triggered a deconstruction of his assumptions about the world. He found out that the propositions he claimed were not embedded deep in his own soul. He went on a journey to make sense of this event in light of his faith and eventually wrote a dissertation on the topic of Christianity and suffering with the hopes of meeting people at the intersection of their faith and suffering with hospitality and care. Dave is a retired counselor, college teacher, a current author, speaker, chaplain, and spiritual formation presenter, as well as an executive director of Four Health Family Resource Center Inc, in Saranac MI.

You can find Dave’s book here: https://rb.gy/9ri2p and

You can Dave’s Dissertation here: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/dmin/281/

Below are the topics and time stamps of the issues we cover which includes,

2:23: Introductions

6:05: Faith Roots

8:11: Bad Songs that shaped his theology and expectation

10:23: “Faith” insulating us from reality

12:34: The First domino of deconstruction: Congregation vs my Dad

17:11: Power dynamics in churches

19:16: Pastoral Authority

22:43: A dissertation to make space for those who suffer

27:00: Jesus, the Man of Sorrows

31:50: Losing my wife to cancer

36:31: Trauma: shattering the assumptive world

39:00: Doubt, struggle, unbelief, AS a form of faith

43:46: The Role of God within suffering: Incarnation and Trinity

48:55: Suffering leads to awakening, but what about trauma damage?

54:51: Post Traumatic Growth

59:28: 5 Views of suffering in the Christian journey

1:04:47: Spiritual bypassing, disassociation, and transcendence

1:10:24: Suffering as initiation into reality, and God

1:12:39: Labels vs essence. Christian as noun and not adjective

1:19:18: Suffering dissolving illusion, bringing us into contact with reality

1:24:15: How is my faith more than a set of propositions?

1:25:49: Hope is not an emotion but an imagination

1:28:19: Conclusion

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