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    <title>Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope</title>
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    <namePart>Chittister, Joan D.</namePart>
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    <publisher>William B. Eerdmans Pub.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xiv, 111 p.  ;  24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Preface: Struggle, the Seedbed of Hope ix -- 1. A Paradigm of Struggle 1 -- 2. The Loss of Certainty: A Suffering of the Soul 8 -- 3. Struggle: The Process and the Challenge 14 -- 4. The Struggle of Change 20 -- 5. The Gift of Conversion 24 -- 6. The Struggle of Isolation 28 -- 7. The Gift of Independence 33 -- 8. The Struggle of Darkness 38 -- 9. The Gift of Faith 41 -- 10. The Struggle with Fear 45 -- 11. The Gift of Courage 49 -- 12. The Struggle with Powerlessness 53 -- 13. The Gift of Surrender 57 -- 14. The Struggle of Vulnerability 61 -- 15. The Gift of Limitations 66 -- 16. The Struggle of Exhaustion 70 -- 17. The Gift of Endurance 74 -- 18. The Struggle of Scarring 79 -- 19. The Gift of Transformation 83 -- 20. Wrestling with God 87 -- 21. The Process of Struggle 91 -- 22. The Process of Hope 97 -- 23. The Gift of Hope 104 -- 24. Hope: The Resurrection of the Spirit 108.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Joan D. Chittister</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Suffering—Religious aspects—Catholic Church.Hope—Religious aspects—Catholic Church</topic>
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