Lamentations and the Tears of the World /
Kathleen M. O'Connor
- Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 2002
- xvi, 156 p. ; 23 cm.
Foreword / by Walter Brueggemann -- Preface -- pt. 1. Commentary: Who will comfort you? Poetry of loss: a defense -- There is no one to comfort you: Lamentations 1 -- Your suffering is vast as the sea: Lamentations 2 -- Mercies new every day: Lamentations 3 -- Beaten down: Lamentations 4 -- Plea from an occupied land: Lamentations 5 -- pt. 2. Reflections: A theology of witness. The power of the missing voice -- Who will comfort you? A theology of witness -- The abusing God -- Prayer for the wounded world -- Epilogue: The comforting God.