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portada God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780827616011

God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis

Spector, Stephen (Author) · Jewish Publication Society · Paperback

God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis - Spector, Stephen

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Synopsis "God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis"

God and the First Families offers a novel exploration of God's role as a parent in the book of Genesis. Compellingly, author Stephen Spector introduces Americans' four main perceptions of God and their four most common styles of parenting as lenses through which we can reckon with God's own methods of parenting in the first biblical book.God begins as an authoritarian parent who demands obedience and submission to authority, but shifts in striking ways. Next, God's parenting seems entirely benevolent. Stunningly, God reverts to authoritarianism during the near sacrifice of Isaac--but then invents a new parenting style focused on guiding the characters' moral and emotional growth. Many psychologists consider this the most successful childrearing method. Genesis reached that conclusion two and a half millennia ago!Throughout, Spector engages with familiar stories--sibling rivalries, family ruptures, traumas--from unexpected angles. He dramatizes how parental love in Genesis builds resilience against trauma, another idea validated by modern psychology. Surviving trauma, healing from parental favoritism, repairing broken relationships, earning forgiveness, possibly even reconciling after injury--Genesis offers wisdom on all.

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